Triage
- Mismatch between no. of casualties and medical responders
- Prioritization of patient care/management based on
- Injury
- Severity
- Prognosis
- Resource availability
- If resources are readily available and are able to cater for the patients involved with the situation, life threatening conditions are managed first
- If they aren’t, patients with best chance of survival are managed first
- Life threatening > Limb threatening > Neither
- SALT (Sort, Assess, Life-Saving Interventions, Transport/Treatment) Triage Algorithm
- Example triage system - ED triage → Determines when pts are seen
- Immediate
- Very urgent
- Urgent
- Standard
- Non urgent
