Mass Casualty Incident Primary Triage Methods in China

Mass Casualty Incident Primary Triage Methods in China

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the technical characteristics and application of mass casualty incident (MCI) primary triage (PT) methods applied in China. DATA SOURCES Chinese literature was searched by Chinese Academic Journal Network Publishing Database (founded in June 2014). The English literature was searched by PubMed (MEDLINE) (1950 to June 2014). We also searched Official Websites of Chinese C...

Field triage and patient maldistribution in a mass-casualty incident.

INTRODUCTION Management of mass-casualty incidents should optimize outcomes by appropriate prehospital care, and patient triage to the most capably facilities. The number of patients, the nature of injuries, transportation needs, distances, and hospital capabilities and availabilities are all factors to be considered. Patient maldistributions such as overwhelming individual facilities, or trans...

Toward a national standard in primary mass casualty triage.

Triage, or “to sort,” had its genesis in war. In battles marked by frontal assault tactics, fields were covered with the wounded and the dead during and after the battle. Until the Napoleonic wars, however, there was no triage: medical care was not routinely offered on the battlefield, and the survivors self-identified through the test of time. Separating the living from the dead then occurred ...

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Appraisal of Field Triage in Mass Casualty Incidents in Taipei

Address for reprints: Dr. Chi-Ren Hung, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 95 Wen Chang Road, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Received: Nov 5 2004. Revised: Nov 15 2004. Accepted: Dec 5 2004. TEL: 886-2-28389425 FAX: 886-2-28353547 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract To evaluate the performance of field triage, we retrospectively reviewed the data from 76 victims from mas...