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Re:Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty inc... by cperciva on Monday November 13, 2017 @08:52PM (#15691962)
The article says that he triaged 150 patients in 30-40 minutes, or one every 12-16 seconds(!!!), so it sounds like not spending the 20 seconds it would take to check for breathing may have been the right call?
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Re:Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty inc... by JshWright on Monday November 13, 2017 @09:06PM (#15692039)
Some of them would have been a lot quicker than that, some would have taken a bit longer. In studies the mean is generally in the 15-20 second range, but some individual data points are just a couple seconds and some are >30 seconds.
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