ESI Triage

[littlehobo]

Hi, I'm after some guidance from anyone using the ESI Triage tool which we are about to audit against the Manchester Triage Tool. I have read the manuals but one bit is a bit unclear. When you get down to catergorising as 3 onwards and it asks about resources do bloods and ECG count as seperate resources?

Its just in the appendix guidance it puts bloods and ECG in the same box making it look like they are one resource? So a bog standard Chest pain if they only had bloods/ECG could be ESI level 4? Or if they are 2 resources they would be level 3.....

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Read this: Chapter 4. ESI Levels 3-5 and Expected Resource Needs | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

ECG and labs are not lumped together. Resources as defined by the AHRQ are suggested, not definitive.

[littlehobo]

Thanks for that. The manual that I downloaded seemed to tabulate the resources so that Labs, ECG/Xrays, and CT/MRI were in the same resource category.

Is the ESI extensively used in the US?

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Thanks for that. The manual that I downloaded seemed to tabulate the resources so that Labs, ECG/Xrays, and CT/MRI were in the same resource category.

Is the ESI extensively used in the US?

In a word, yes. Probably the most common!