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Simplified Triage Guide for Volunteer Responders: Prioritizing Patient Care

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This updated guide on triage details the process for determining patient priority in emergencies where victims exceed responder capacity. It outlines four triage categories: 1st priority (critical), 2nd priority (serious), 3rd priority (stable), and 4th priority (obviously dead). Key steps include calling EMS, assessing victims quickly, and employing color-coded tags (red, yellow, green, black) to classify patients based on their conditions. The guide emphasizes rapid assessment and efficient resource allocation to ensure critical care is prioritized effectively.

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Simplified Triage Guide for Volunteer Responders: Prioritizing Patient Care

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  1. (Based on the START system) Simplified Triage for the Volunteer Responder Updated November 14, 2011

  2. What is Triage? • Triage is a process for determining the priority of patients • This is done in situations were the amount of patients is great than the amount of responders.

  3. Multiple Victims • Decide who needs care and who can wait • Triage systems classify victims into four categories • 1st priority (critical) • 2nd priority (serious) • 3rd priority (stable) • 4th priority (obviously dead)

  4. Triage Process • Call EMS immediately • Ask who can walk and ask them to move to one side (3rd priority) • Assess remaining victims in less than 1 minute • Check for responsiveness, breathing, severe bleeding • Do not start care for anyone until you have checked all • If victim’s condition changes, may have to change priority

  5. Triage Classification • Go in order of this card from top to bottom. • Assess • Treat • Find color • Stop • Tag • Move on

  6. Triage Tags • When determining a patients condition the person is given a colored tag correlating with the state of condition they are in. • We will be treating in the color order Red, Yellow, Green, then Black.

  7. Triage Continuing • After everybody is tagged, begin treating the 1st priority/red patients. • As the 1st priorities start to go away or stabilized then move some recourses to the 2nd priority/yellow patients.

  8. 1st Priority Triage (Red) • Victims with life-threatening injuries who cannot wait for help • Airway or breathing problems • Severe bleeding • Shock • Severe burn

  9. 2nd Priority Triage (Yellow) • Victims with injuries that need care soon but may be able to wait • Burns • Broken bones • Other injuries that are not severely bleeding

  10. 3rd Priority Triage (Green) • Victims who can wait for some time • Minor injuries • Victims who can walk

  11. 4th Priority Triage (Black) • Victims who probably can’t be saved • No signs of life

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