Are your MCI Triage Tags Water Proof? - My Firefighter Nation. The concept of START Triage revolutionized how we, the fire service approaches mass casualty incidents which dependent upon where you are from includes an five or more patients.
If you pulled up on an accident scene, do you have the necessary tools memorized to ensure saving the maximum number of lives? And if you do have to use the decontamination process, please make sure that your triage tags are water proof. One drill I attended included everyone documenting the appropriate information on the triage tags for a drill. The problem was that after the victims went through gross decon after the initital triage nurse evaluation, the triage tags lost all the data because they were not water proof. The first triage tags that came out were paper. Even though START Triage is as simple because all you have to memorize is: 32 CAN DO... or RPM... that's it. The second generation of triage tags included a cheat sheet to remind folks of this new concept of 32 CAN DO or START Triage.
Medical Mnemonics .com: World's Database of Medical Mnemonics. Common Mnemonics and Formula in Emergency Medicine. Updated 29 Aug 2012Note: This post is going to be updated from time to time as I re-collect back as many mnemonics and study tips as possible.
I ask if you can help to contribute any mnemonics you may want to share with me, as well as to give your comments to this post. Thanks. 1. A great site with many sets of medical mnemonics for medical students.......and postgrad students too. Click here to access. 2. I have included below here a database of mnemonics commonly used in emergency medicine, at least in the place where I work/lecture in. Note: This post will be updated regularly as more and more mnemonics be added in: Pre-hospital Care/First Responder 1. E = Exact Location - The precise location of the incident. Www.phprep.org.
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