If the patient gets an emergency scan after a score of 7 was triggered, does this start a second deterioration event?
No. If the NEWS score has not fallen to 5 or less yet, the emergency scan is part of the same event.
No. If the NEWS score has not fallen to 5 or less yet, the emergency scan is part of the same event. Contrarily, if some form of treatment has brought the score down to 5 or less and a separate event prompts emergency scanning, this is now a second deterioration episode.