Types of Triage

In advanced triage systems, secondary triage is typically implemented by emergency nurses, skilled paramedics, or battlefield medical personnel within the emergency departments of hospitals during disasters, injured people are sorted into five categories.

An alternate care facility (ACF) is a site where “medical needs” sheltering, urgent care services and select traditional inpatient services are not usually provided but which is deliberately repurposed for provision of such services during select disasters.

Continuous integrated triage is an approach to triage in mass casualty situations.

Evacuation. In the field, triage sets priorities for evacuation or relocation to other care facilities. Alternative care facilities. Alternative care facilities are places that are set up for the care of large numbers of patients, or are places that could be so set up.

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reverse triage A system of categorization of patients in a mass casualty situation based on decisions as to which can most safely be discharged rather than on priority for treatment.

Simple triage and rapid treatment (START) is a triage method used by first responders to quickly classify victims during a mass casualty incident (MCI) based on the severity of their injury. The method was developed in 1983 by the staff members of Hoag Hospital and Newport Beach Fire Department located in California, and is currently widely used in the United States.

American College of Surgeons (ACS) secondary trauma triage guidelines state that a 10% undertriage rate is acceptable and a 50% overtriage or false-positive rate is unavoidable in order to capture as many at-risk patients as possible, Dr.