One of the most important aspects of disaster planning is providing for early availability of medical equipment, partly stored at the airport and partly brought from outside. The first priority is obviously to evaluate what is required.

Correct Medical Strategy. This is based on the concept that the first priority is to care for the injured whose life is in immediate danger. The activity on site will include: triage, simple at the beginning, based on first aid concepts, but more sophisticated as more experienced personnel become available; on site care, ranging from first aid to resuscitation; and a rational dispatching of patients to hospitals, using resuscitation ambulances, specially equipped helicopters, or standard ambulances.

Classification of Victims. Priority I or red tag. Priority II or yellow tag. Priority III or green tag. Priority IV or black tag (dead).