Disaster triage: START, then SAVE - A new method of dynamic triage for victims of a catastrophic earthquake

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-124

  Benson, Mark ^a   Koenig, Kristi L ^b,c   Schultz, Carl H ^d  

^a EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HIGHLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

catastrophe, communications; disaster, Glasgow Coma Scale; Glasgow Outcome Scale; infrastructure; mangled extremity severity score; mass casualties; medical disaster response; resource allocation; survivability; transport availability; transport delays; trauma; triage; triage tags

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THORAX INJURY; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BURNS; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRUSH SYNDROME; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NATURAL DISASTERS; THORACIC INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 0030119193     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0004276X     Document Type: Article

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