The Mass Casualty Incident: Triage

[Highlander]

The trouble is with long posts like these many people will never read them.

I think it has flaws in it,... take the guy who comes across the incident, according to this piece, he has to start triaging not treating,... how in reality does he do that, he is not medically trained, he will almost certainly not have pretty labels on his person

So he starts going amongst the casualties he will not be able to see most of the wounds,.. he cant leave `red` cases to continue with his triaging and leave a very badly injured casualty to die,..... basically the rescuer is in a mess

We did a certain amount of training for this kind of thing in the Army, albeit coming across an ambush situation,.. but in every case there were quiet a few men around to do the job,...and in the piece above that would have to be the case as well,... because just one or two people couldn't manage in the form that it is written down there

All an individual could hope to do, is to first access the risk of further damage being done,... if he thinks it safe enough he would move in,.. he would NEVER ask the casualties for help, he risks people moving about who shouldn't be moved, a person with a broken neck or back doesn't always know it until they move, and that often too late, many will be in shock and are likely to do very different things to what you have asked,..and even the ones who are able could kill casualties by doing the wrong thing

you would have to use your eyes, access each in this way,.. deal with heavy bleeding first, because that's the ONLY symptom that will appear clearly desperate

The piece above was either written for medical personal who come across a situation, or military personnel