field triage
Emergency victim prioritization
Field triage is the rapid assessment and sorting of casualties at an emergency scene to determine treatment priority.
Medical personnel evaluate injuries on-site, deciding who needs immediate care, who can wait, and who cannot be saved.
The term applies to battlefields, disaster zones, and mass casualty incidents: Paramedics performed field triage after the building collapse.
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- disaster zoneRegion of severe destruction
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- combat medicMilitary first responder
medic · first responder · assessment · wounded · priority · walking wounded · casualty · mass casualty · stretcher · bleeding · stabilize · evacuation · paramedic · critical · life or death · golden hour · ambulance · disaster
field triagehospital admission
field triagedefinitive treatment
Intervention resolving underlying disease
long-term care · surgical intervention · rehabilitation · preventive care · convalescence
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