[Scan-DC] Priority 4

[Alan Henney]

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7. Assign Clinical Priority
a) Priority 1 — Critically ill or injured person requiring immediate attention;
unstable patients with life-threatening injury or illness. (NEW ’09)
b) Priority 2 — Less serious condition yet potentially life-threatening injury or illness,
requiring emergency medical attention but not immediately endangering the patient’s life.
(NEW ’09)
c) Priority 3 — Non-emergent condition, requiring medical attention but not
on an emergency basis.
d) Priority 4 — Does not require medical attention.
e) In the event of a multiple casualty incident, the Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment
(START and/or JumpSTART) technique will be instituted for rapid tagging and sorting
of patients into priority categories for both treatment and transport.



c) Stable priority 3 or 4 patients who do not need a time critical intervention
may also be transported to the local emergency department or
freestanding medical facility.