11/16/2019 4 TRIAGE-DEFINED-TRADITIONAL VS RAMP-GETTING IT DONE Reality-Testing: New Triage Tactics with Current Paradigms for MCIs TRIAGE DEFINED The process of sorting people based on thei r need for immediate medical treatment as compared to their chance of benefiting from such care.Triage is done in emergency rooms, July 2019. Triage Drift Concept of ‘normalization toward the mean’ The knowledge that a patient will need to be assigned to the waiting room, may lead the triage nurse to ‘uptriage’ a CTAS 4 or 5 patient in the hopes of shortening their wait Similarly there may be subconscious pressure to ‘downtriage’ certain patients based on ED space MASS CASUALTY TRAUMA TRIAGE PARADIGMS AND PITFALLS. Triage acuity ratings are useful data that can be used to describe and benchmark the overall acuity of an individual EDs' case mix. Enabling Objec