Triage categories

Locate the Web site for the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense. Locate the TLiage of Chemical Casualties chapter. Describe each of the triage categories and how they would be used in a mass chemical exposure event. 

Expectant—the patient needs medical care beyond that which the MTF can provide this patient is therefore expected to die. As resources change, this patient s condition may be re-evaluated and his triage category changed to a higher category (Sidell et al., 1997). 

The triage officer sorts each casualty into one of the four triage categories immediate, minimal, delayed, or expectant (Exhibit 13-1). At lower echelons of care, the triage officer may be a senior medic (who may also be the staff at the emergency treatment station) at higher echelons, he may be a physician s assistant, dentist, or physician. 

TRIAGE CATEGORIES FOR CASUALTIES OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS... 

Triage categories are based on the need for medical care, and they should not be confused with categories for evacuation to a higher-echelon medical treatment facility (MTF) for definitive care. The need for evacuation and, more importantly, the... 

Triage category at scene Not known Immediate Urgent Delayed ... 

Because risk varies and resources are limited, it is important to triage and treat patients according to their risk category. Initial approaches to treatment of STE and NSTE ACS patients are outlined in Fig. 5-1. Patients with STE are at high risk of death, and efforts to re-establish coronary perfusion,... 

It is important to triage and treat patients according to their risk category (see Fig. 5-1). 

Military triage is based on medical need, medical utility, and an additional category, social utility. Social utility is the notion of allocating resources to those who may be the most useful or most valued in a society (Edge Groves, 1994). In the military there is a social utility to treating those with minor injuries quickly because... 

Rapid triage takes place to sort victims Into critical, urgent, delayed, or expectant categories... 

What are the basic hospital triage system categories Explain each. 

Describe the basic elements of a disaster triage tag. What do the colors red, yellow, green, and black signify List types of problems for each category. 

Knowledge beforehand that patients are victims of a CB attack would, of course, be useful in order to anticipate and triage casualties, as well as to plan for long-term treatment modalities. But the fact that casualties were deliberately caused by a terrorist attack involving Category C or B agents may go unrecognized for some time. Two examples illustrate this latter point. 

An Attribute MSA is not limited to binary (pass/fail) decisions. The same method can be used to evaluate responses that have multiple categories (e.g., emergency room triage codes or help desk severity levels). 

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