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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

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Examples would be as below: The “walking wounded” triage heuristic in mass casualty incidents—patient able to walk to you can be initially triaged as “green” or “minimal”. Developing rules of thumb Heuristics are “rules of thumb” or mental shortcuts to make fast decisions. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland. Gigerenzer, G.