Early Warning Escalation Triggers - (EWET)

For First Aiders / Responders

• EWET is designed to distinguish between patients who can be managed in the care setting and patients who need admission to the Emergency Department.

• It is accepted that physiological deterioration precedes critical illness, but first aiders/responders will require the tools to establish a critical level of deterioration.

• EWET score aims to filter those patients with critical physiological deterioration by generating an indicative score based on those patient observations that are routinely performed by first aiders/responders.