Introduction:

The Triage method of classification, selection and evaluation used in emergency areas, allows patients to be ordered according to the pathology prioritizing its severity and life-threatening situation.

Objective:

To analyze the triage in patients who arrive at the Emergency Area of ​​the Specialty Hospital del Sur Delfina Torres de Concha.

Methodology:

A cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study was carried out to analyze the triage process of the emergency service at the Hospital del Sur de Esmeraldas. For this, we worked with a population of 235 users who attended the emergency service during the months of February and March 2021, framed in the inclusion criteria such as belonging to the adult stage >18 years. The variables studied were age, sex, symptoms, diseases and triage levels: I. Red Color-Immediate Attention; II. Orange Color-Very Urgent; and III. Yellow Color-Urgent.

Results:

The study population was made up of 62.12% female and 37.87% male, the most frequent ages were that of the groups of 36 to 45 years with 49.78%. Among the main symptoms, headache appears (39.57%) and the most frequent disease was arterial hypertension (37.02%). Regarding the classification, it was obtained that almost half of the users were classified between the colors red and orange.

Conclusions:

The users who were treated in the emergency room presented pathologies such as arterial hypertension, with symptoms of headache and almost half of them were classified in the colors red and orange.

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