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Chapter 13 - Advanced Triage Management for Emergency Medical Teams
from Section 4 - Clinical Considerations
- By Frederick M Burkle
Edited by Elhanan Bar-On, Kobi Peleg, Yitshak Kreiss
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Field Hospitals

Published online:

09 January 2020

Print publication:

09 January 2020, pp 119-132
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This chapter focuses on triage management in both national and international mass casualty incidents. They be a sudden-onset natural disaster, a public health emergency of international concern, or a war or armed conflict resulting in the deployment of field level hospitals that are focused on civilians, the military, or both, and are capable of rapid deployment and expansion or contraction to meet immediate emergency requirements for a specified period of time. The goal of triage is to treat as many victims as possible who have an opportunity for survival. Triage does not exist in isolation, but represents a complex process that balances clinical requirements with resource allocation and system management where the decision operatives are the likelihood of medical success and the conservation of scare resources.