[Scan-DC] Red Tag, Yellow Tag, etc

[Doug K.]

Informationwise,

Other jurisdictions may use Priority One (life-threatening),
Two (serious but not life-threatening),
Three ("walking wounded"), and
Four (definition is "requires no care", which means DOA/dead on arrival).  
(I've also heard that put as DRT which means "dead right there" but that's 
been off-line.)

(Most of the local MD services seem to use this one, including State Police 
Medevacs).  (I mean Priority 1-4, not DRT!)

Hope I'm not repeating something that everyone is familiar with!  :)  I'd 
never heard the color codes before, thanks.

Doug

>From: James Richardson <jimmnn@netbeam.net>
>To: "Randy Benn" <rbenn@clark.net>
>CC: scan-dc@mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Red Tag, Yellow Tag, etc
>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:51:43 -0700
>
>>This morning there was a serious accident in Loudoun County with 2 pickups 
>>involved in a head-on on Rt 15.  I heard the rescue personnel describe the 
>>patients as "2 red tags and 1 yellow tag." I'm assuming this has to do 
>>with their overall assesment of the patients when they arrive on the 
>>scene. Can anyone provide any more details on exactly what this means?
>
>Yes it's Triage of the patients (french word for sorting)
>
>It varies but in most systems Green is walking wounded, Yellow has 
>potential but is not severe, Red is a life threatening injury(s) and black 
>is dead.

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