2. Simple triage and rapid treatment simple triage and rapid
treatment (START) is a triage method used by first responders to
quickly classify victims during a mass casualty incident (MCI)
based on the severity of their injury. The method was developed in
1983 by the staff members of Hoag Hospital and Newport Beach Fire
Department located in California, and is currently widely used in
the United States. 3. Classification: First responders using START
evaluate victims and assign them to one of the following four
categories: Immediate (red) Delayed (yellow) Walking wounded/minor
(green) Deceased/expectant (black) The colors correspond to triage
tags, which are used by some agencies to indicate each victim's
status, although physical tags are not necessary if patients can be
physically sorted into different areas. . 4. Responders arriving to
the scene of a mass casualty incident may first ask that any victim
who is able to walk relocate to a certain area, thereby identifying
the ambulatory, or walking wounded, patients. Non-ambulatory
patients are then assessed. The only medical intervention used
prior to declaring a patient deceased is an attempt to open the
airway. Any patient who is not breathing after this attempt is
classified as deceased and given a black tag. No further
interventions or therapies are attempted on deceased patients until
all other patients have been treated. Patients who are breathing
and have any of the following conditions are classified as
immediate: respiratory rate greater than 30 per minute.
unresponsive (unable to follow commands) All other patients are
classified as delayed 5. Treatment and Evacuation After all
patients have been evaluated, responders use the START
classifications to determine priorities for treatment or evacuation
to a hospital. The most basic way to use the START classifications
is to transport victims in a fixed priority manner: immediate
victims, followed by delayed victims, followed by the walking
wounded. More detailed secondary triage systems such as SAVE may
also be used: in this case, the START classifications are used to
determine the order in which victims should undergo secondary
triage. START is not a system for determining resource allocation.
The classification algorithm used in START does not depend on the
number of victims or on the number of resources available to treat
them, nor does using START alone provide any prioritization of
patients within any of the four triage classes. Therefore,
significant differences in implementation of treatment and
evacuation may exist across different agencies using START. 6. Idea
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Reference: Internet source:1.www.google.com via start triage
wikipedia 2.youtube.com via what is start triage? Audio and video
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