The Emergency Therapy Index
Not the endangered state of a patient
(diagnostic aspect, possibly without the therapy which is required) but the
treatment, what is actually done for the patient, should be graduated in order
to describe the value of a rescue service. For this purpose, the ETI was
developed:
0 |
No medical
examination or other measures |
1 |
Determination
of death without the EP's prior therapy |
2 |
Medical examination without therapy |
3 |
Prophylactical therapy (e.g., anticonvulsive prophylaxis, i.v. line) |
4 |
Therapy, not directed against vital threat (vital threat may exist) |
5 |
Constant
monitoring (medical surveillance) necessary due to |
6 |
Therapy directed against vital threat to life or |
6B |
risk of invalidity (e.g., spinal injury, amputation) |
7 |
Endotracheal
intubation and/or anaesthesia and/or operative |
7B |
Anaesthesia
without intubation |
8 |
Defibrillation and/or cardiac massage before admission |
9 |
Defibrillation and/or cardiac massage, death without admission |
The Emergency Therapy Index [ETI].
Schou J. Emergency Therapy
Index for Classification of missions in pre-hospital emergency medicine. Theor
Surg 1989;4:190-9.