triage
/ˈtriːɑːʒ/
noun
- The process of deciding the order of treatment for patients or people based on how serious their injuries or conditions are.
- In the emergency room, triage helps doctors treat the most critical patients first.
- The nurse performed triage quickly, sending the heart attack victim ahead of those with minor cuts.
- After the earthquake, volunteers set up a triage center to sort the injured.
- A system for prioritizing tasks, projects, or resources based on urgency or importance.
- With limited time, she applied triage to her to-do list, focusing only on what was due today.
- The manager used triage to decide which customer complaints to address first.
- During the software update, the team did triage on the bugs, fixing the most critical ones immediately.
verb
- To sort or prioritize (patients, tasks, etc.) according to urgency or need.
- We need to triage these emails and answer the urgent ones right away.
- The paramedics had to triage the accident victims before the ambulance arrived.
- The hospital staff triaged the incoming patients, sending the most serious cases to surgery.
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