Your protocols call for you to use the pediatric assessment triangle when assessing young children. You know that the second leg of the triangle assesses the "work of breathing" and the bottom leg of the triangle assesses "circulation to the skin." What does the first leg of the triangle stand for?

Appearance.

Explanation:

The Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) can be explained as a rapid evaluation tool that establishes a child's clinical status and his or her category of illness to direct initial management priorities.

The purpose of Pediatric Assessment Triangle is that, it is used as a method of quickly determining the acuity of the child, and can determine whether the child is in respiratory distress, respiratory failure, or shock.

There are 3 major components of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT), these are

* Appearance

* Work of breathing

* Circulation to the skin.

it stands for appearance.

Explanation:

This is the tool used to access the clinical status of a child,in emergency medicine,to determine  the clinical nature/ status of the child or  the nature of  diseases afflicting( the  severity and pathophysiology )the child so that   the initial  management intervention  to undertake  to salvage the situation can be taken.

Basically the first leg of the triangle stands for Appearance. It is used to checked if there is a change in the mental status of the child as as result of the infections, and to confirm if the respiratory  passages are free of obstruction

It s five components are- Tone, Irritabililty, Consolabiltiy,Look and Speech.(represented by the acronyms-TICLS -