triage, tag and move the “patients” to treatment areas. The treatment areas can be red, yellow, green and black pieces of paper signifying the colors in the START system. This training can be ...

Background Recent events involving a significant number of casualties have emphasised the importance of appropriate preparation for receiving hospitals, especially Emergency Departments, during the ...

In the event of a mass casualty incident that overwhelms the available medical resources, he or she may be the most qualified professional present to triage and organise patient care. Certain basic ...

to study ways in which to evaluate the results of mass casualty triage systems. The key to this registry-based research is to link initial information about out-of-hospital patients (eg, their mental ...