EMERGENCY TRIAGE, 4TH EDITION

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. It is also used in hospitals throughout Brazil.

The core Manchester Triage System reference, fully revised and updated

Emergency Triage, now in its Fourth Edition, is the core text for the Manchester Triage System (MTS), the most widely used triage system in the world. Written by members of the Manchester Triage Group, this edition delivers the latest protocols and prioritisation strategies for clinicians using face-to-face triage in urgent and emergency care.

Reading more like a manual than a reference, it uses case studies to set out how to use MTS in practice, alongside detailed advice on implementing and maintaining the system.

This edition introduces:

• A strict hierarchy of discriminators, reordering general and specific discriminators throughout the priority levels
• Revised flowcharts, including updated mental health charts and a diarrhoea and vomiting chart now split into separate adult and paediatric versions
• New evidence-based paediatric vital signs from a European multicentre study to strengthen the prioritisation of children
• Expanded background documenting the prequel and true origins of MTS
• A clear, logically sequenced overview that builds clinical decision-making step by step, supported by practical examples

Emergency Triage serves all providers in urgent and emergency care, including triage practitioners, emergency department staff, prehospital clinicians, and primary care clinicians. It functions both as a training tool for those learning the Manchester Triage System and as a daily clinical reference.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)

ISBN Number: 978-1-394-26665-4 (Print) / ISBN: 978-1-394-26668-5 (E-Book) / ISBN: 978-1-394-26669-2 (O-Book)

Corporate author: Manchester Triage Group

Publishing date: September 2026

EMERGENCY TRIAGE: TELEPHONE TRIAGE AND ADVICE (Version 1.7, 2023)

Emergency Triage: Telephone Triage and Advice complements the highly successful Emergency Triage. The algorithms are rooted in the Manchester Triage System (MTS), which is used in hospitals around the world and which is acknowledged as an effective means of clinical prioritisation.

This telephone iteration of a triage system which prioritises millions of patients each year provides a robust, safe, evidence-based system for managing the clinical risk in patients who are at a distance from health care providers. The basic principles that drive the MTS remain, but this book addresses the specific difficulties of assessment by telephone. The possible triage outcomes are "face-to-face now", "face-to-face soon" and "face-to-face later" together with a self-care option. Information and advice is suggested at every level. The advice ranges from life-saving interventions, which can be carried out until health care arrives, to self-care instructions.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)

ISBN Number: 978-1-118-36942-5 (E-Book) / 978-1-118-36938-8 (Print)

Corporate author: Manchester Triage Group

Publishing date: 2015 / v1.7 2023