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Trauma Triage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Howard F. Champion
Howard F. Champion
Affiliation:
Trauma Service, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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Triage is the process of classifying injured patients according to a predetermined hierarchy. Triage typically involves the urgency prioritization of trauma patients in mass casualty circumstances. The triage process is also used daily in Emergency Medical Systems that incorporate trauma care systems to identify how severely a patient is injured and to channel the patient into the appropriate treatment echelon, i.e., to determine a threshold level of severity that merits a specific level of care.

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 2: Contributions from the Fouth World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, England May, 1985 , 1987 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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