Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty incident

Re:Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty inc... by ncallaway on Monday November 13, 2017 @07:52PM (#15691676)

My understanding (and this is from a limited amount of Googling, so if you have domain experience I'll gladly defer to your judgement) is that black tags are applied to those who are already thought to be deceased, _or_ to those who are thought cannot be saved with the given care available:

"Black tags - are used for the deceased and for those whose injuries are so extensive that they will not be able to survive given the care that is available."

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7...

Again, if you are experienced and knowledgeable in triage please disregard my understanding.

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Re:Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty inc... by JshWright on Monday November 13, 2017 @08:16PM (#15691793)

Yeah, a black tag is someone who is going to be dead. That may be because they're already dead, or because they're beyond help (given the resources available).

The criteria used by all the major triage systems for a black tag classifications is a lack of respirations (and because he's an ER doc, he's going to reflexively check a pulse).

I don't think my experience is especially important (as you said, this is all googleable info), but I'm a paramedic with a little over a decade in EMS.

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Re:Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty inc... by khed on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @05:43PM (#15699923)

This is not correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage#Conventional_classifica...

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Re:Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty inc... by JshWright on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @05:53PM (#15700010)

What do you mean by "this"?

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