Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients¶
Sasser, S. M. (2012). Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients: Recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. MMWR Recommendations and Reports, 1-20.
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Mechanisms¶
- Triage Protocol
- The failure modes are real and ethically charged. Over-triage floods the top band (classifying too much as critical) until the priority means nothing and everyone waits; under-triage misses genuinely critical items and lets them deteriorate in a lower band.
This sourceDefines overtriage as unnecessary use of scarce trauma resources and undertriage as failure to deliver timely specialized care.
- The failure modes are real and ethically charged. Over-triage floods the top band (classifying too much as critical) until the priority means nothing and everyone waits; under-triage misses genuinely critical items and lets them deteriorate in a lower band.
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