EM Triage

EM Triage helps emergency department triage nurses and physicians apply a five-level triage method to adults and children at the bedside, from what they see, in a few taps.

How it works
1. Tap Adult (17 and over) or Child (under 17). For a child, tap the age group: under 3 months, 3 months to 3 years, or over 3 years.
2. Pick the presenting complaint from plain groups, or search for it.
3. Answer at most two screens: tick the vital signs that apply, then tick any other findings, or tap the closest match from a short list.

The result shows the acuity level (I to V), the time-to-nurse and time-to-physician targets, reassessment guidance, and how the level was set: the finding that set it, or the complaint's starting level. Lines under every result name the method's edition (2012), say it is not updated to the 2025 revision, and say it supports, and does not replace, clinical judgment.

Features
• Adult and paediatric triage in one app. A label on every triage screen shows which is in use and, for a child, the age group.
• Children's temperature rows are shown for the age group chosen.
• Complaints sit in plain groups, arrests first, with a search that understands British spellings and common bedside abbreviations such as SOB, CP and OD.
• Every list runs most urgent first.
• Quick reference: the five levels and their time targets, children's normal heart and breathing rates by age, and the paediatric GCS (under 2 years).
• Large tap targets and a dark theme for night shifts.
• Works fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics. The app never asks for patient details, and nothing you enter leaves the phone.

Method: EM Triage applies a published five-level, complaint-oriented emergency triage method, 2012 edition, in its own wording and structure.

Edition: EM Triage follows the 2012 edition of the method. Revised guidelines were released in 2025, and EM Triage has not been updated to them. Where your department uses the 2025 edition or its own protocol, follow that.

Independence: EM Triage is an independent app. No publisher of a triage scale made or reviewed it.

Important: EM Triage is not a substitute for clinical judgment. It supports clinical judgment, triage training and institutional triage protocols; it does not replace them. The triage nurse or clinician is responsible for every triage decision. EM Triage has not been c