For many years, emergency surgeries have been dealt with in an unscheduled and unplanned manner. This created bottlenecks, which could result in morbidity and mortality for patients. Felipe Montoya-Pelaez and his team in the Department of Anaesthesia have solved this problem. They developed an electronic emergency surgery triage tool replacing the manual, paper-based system of booking emergency cases. Now, they can schedule more efficiently, prioritize and assess patients requiring surgery. The patients receive timely surgery according to the urgency of their condition.

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