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Author When do you start marking with triage colors?
Bernhard Nowotny

2005-05-26, 11:50 am

Hello,

a similar posting by me appeared in a.e-s.moderated, but I need
new input, so I tuned it a little bit. For questions on details
in German triage approaches see the thread in newsgroup
alt.emergency-services.moderated. Thanks! Here we go:

Training with the STaRT triage scheme, I found it a good thing
on any scene with more than one patient, just for the first
assessment. Obviously it's not needed to mark the patients with
color tags/tape as long as you can remember their condition until
they all can be treated individually - which normally is the case
in a very short time.

Any ideas how I should phrase in our protocols, when we should
start actually marking the patients with color tags or tape?

Do your protocols give a number of victims or any other criteria?

Thanks for helping!


Bernhard

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