Reply to Last night every emergency vet hospital closed their doors on us

Forum Index » Pets

Reply to "Last night every emergency vet hospital closed their doors on us"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused about what op thinks veterinary hospitals operating at capacity are supposed to do when she shows up. Throw another emergency out the door and treat her dog?[/quote]
Triage [/quote]

Right. Is triage unreasonable?[/quote]

1. Animals can't talk so triage is much harder.

2. They do triage as much as possible.

3. They were at capacity. So who would do this triage?

4. You do know that a concept in triage is to just let some go that can't be saved, right?[/quote]

[b]#4 is completely false.[/b] They triage the most emergent situations, especially actively dying pets as “most critical” so they are seen above anything stable. If your pet is not actively in a life threatening situation, they may turn you away. [/quote]

DP here.

The prior PP is not wrong. People use the word loosely now, but "triage" as a term came out of disaster work with mass casualties, and the original three groups were those who will survive without intervention, those who need intervention to survive, and those who will not likely survive despite available interventions.[/quote]

Perhaps in mass casualty situations, yes. But this is simply not the case in emergency vet med at the moment. [/quote]

Yes my cat with breathing difficulties was seen right away and I overheard them explaining to someone who complained why they saw a cat who was having difficulty breathing first.  This is common triage for emergency rooms whether for pets or humans but yes triage in a mass casualty situation would be different. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics