The SET’s advanced triage protocols classify patients into two groups: low-risk patiens and high-risk-patients.
TREELOGIC TEAM| 24/03/2020
The Structured Triage System (SET) makes it possible to detect and implement advanced triage protocols in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Irrespective of the degree of urgency and complexity of the patients, which are already assessed by the system, the emergence of the current pandemic means that a general situation of epidemic risk must be assumed, although this may be modulated according to the patient's symptoms and risk level. Consequently, regardless of the generalised situation of epidemic risk, the SET’s advanced triage protocols classify patients into two groups:
1. Low-risk patients: These are patients with symptoms that are compatible with COVID-19 (dry cough, malaise, fever or feverishness, headache, joint and muscle pains etc.), but without any other severity or risk factor.
2. High-risk patients: These are patients with symptoms compatible with COVID-19 (dry cough, malaise, fever or feverishness, headache, joint and muscle pains etc.), with severity factors (fundamentally dyspnea and respiratory insufficiency) and risk factors (mainly elderly patients with comorbidities – cardiac and vascular pathologies, arterial hypertension, respiratory diseases, diabetes or immunosuppression for any cause – and who are fragile). Although there is currently no scientific evidence to identify it as a risk factor, pregnancy has been included given its particular features.
The advanced triage protocols for high and low risk are available for triage professionals whenever the patient has COVID-19 compatible symptoms, which are otherwise relatively non-specific with regard to other respiratory viruses. For patients with risk factors, irrespective of whether or not they have symptoms compatible with COVID-19, the SET also establishes as a protocol the possible suspicion of the disease and, above all, alerts the healthcare staff.
These protocols will be dynamic depending on the evolution of the disease and the scientific evidence that will be incorporated and made part of the protocols. TREELOGIC may update the COVID-19 protocols where necessary as a result of progress in the knowledge and management of the disease.
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