Triage vs. Streaming — What's the Difference?

In medicine, triage () is a process done when the immediate demand for medical resources exceeds their availability. It is the process of assigning priority to patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition, the urgency of them to receive immediate treatment, and their likelihood of recovery with and without treatment.

A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.

A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.

A steady current in such a flow of water.

A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.

A steady current of a fluid.

A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority

A large amount or number moving or occurring in steady succession

To sort or allocate by triage

A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history.

Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.

A beam or ray of light.

(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

Chiefly British A course of study to which students are tracked.

The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.

(Computers) A steady flow of data.

That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.

To flow in a stream or current.

A marshalling yard, classification yard.

To pour forth or give off a stream; flow

To subject to triage; to prioritize.

To move or arrive in large numbers; pour

Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food

To extend, wave, or float outward

To leave a continuous trail of light.

To give forth a continuous stream of light rays or beams; shine.

To emit, discharge, or exude (a body fluid, for example).

(Computers) To transmit or receive (audio or video content), especially over the internet, in small, sequential packets that permit the content to be played continuously as it is being received and without saving it to a hard disk.

Flowing or moving in continuous succession, like fluid in a stream.

Present participle of stream

Movement as a stream.

(computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.

Division of classes into academic streams.

The working of alluvial deposits to get ore.

Sending forth streams.

The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.

The rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; - called also protoplasmic streaming.

The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell

Exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts;

Moving smoothly and continuously;

(of liquids) moving freely;