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15 Cards in this Set
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What does triage mean?
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To sort your patients based on the severity of their injuries.
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What is the goal of triage?
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Doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
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What are the four triage categories?
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Immediate (Red)
Delayed (Yellow) Non-Urgent / Walking wounded (Green) Expectant / Dead or Dying (Black) |
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What is the first step in the START triage system?
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Call out and try to identify walking wounded. Direct these patients to the treatment area or a specific rally point
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What is the next stage?
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Go to the nearest non ambulatory patient.
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What is the first step in assessing a patient?
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Assess breathing
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What if the patient is not breathing?
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Reposition the airway and recheck.
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What if there is still no breathing?
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Class the patient as dead with a back tag.
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What if the patient starts to breath when the airway is opened?
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Put them in the recovery position and give them a Red tag - Immediate!
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If when assessed the patient was breathing what is next?
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Assess the rate of breathing
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What are you looking for with the rate of breathing?
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Less than 10 or more than 30 tag as immediate
Between 10 and 30 move on and assess circulation. |
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What are you looking for with circulation?
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Weak or absent radial pulse gets the patient a red immediate tag
If the radial pulse is present then move on to the next stage of the assessment |
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What is the last part of the assessment?
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The neurologic status.
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How is the neurologic status determined?
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Assess the patients ability to follow simple commands. Touch your nose with your finger, squeeze my hand, show me three fingers etc.
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How is the patient categorized by the following of commands?
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If the patient cannot follow commands they should be tagged as immediate, if they can follow commands then they are classed as delayed.
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