I think the ER and such forget the meaning of “triage”. When I worked as an EMR, we hit a huge scene where there were multiple injuries. People were tagged:black, dead. Red, urgent. Blue, mobile. etc.Red was tended first, no matter if that person was first in line or not. Then those with injuries yet mobile and lucid. Then those mobile with non-threatening injuries. The dead were handled last.That’s triage. Head injuries supersede those with colds, sniffles, stomach flu, etc. |