Hi Adrian,

The most weel known is the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment ("START") system and Tags based on the 4 color coded categories:

- Red = immediate - critical patient

- Yellow = delayed - serious patient that could wait until all reds have been transported

- Green = ambulatory / hold – minor injuries

- Black = deceased (expectant)

Here is a pretty good summary of how this works and how to categorize patients: http://bit.ly/1JK01SE

There are a few examples of prototypes of electronic tags (e.g. http://www.jhuapl.edu/AID-N/Pub/EMBS_2006_Triage.pdf) but even if it looks appealing, I suspect that this would be too time consuming and/or expensive to implement on a large scale.

Hope this helps.

Matthieu

Matthieu,

Thank you for your response! We use the START triage system for some time now, with good results. You are right about the electronic tags as they are presented in the article.

I was wondering if anyone would know about any actual usage of barcodes/contacless tags already in use, maybe there's a practical way of having it done on a large scale.

Adrian

We are also using the same START system but would like to try new systems if applicable. Please do share your experience if u happen to use these new systems successfully.