Triage Research Paper

Studies suggest patients seen in military health care facilities are at minimal risk for gross negligent care when evaluated and managed by PTs, with or without physician referral. Early access to PT has been reported to have far-reaching benefits or reduced medical costs, improved patient satisfaction, enhanced recovery time, reduced sick leave, prevention of chronic problems, and reduction in total amount of PT needed. Direct Access would reduce excessive patient visits, and initiate rehab closer to the time of injury or onset of symptoms, ensuring that serious injuries are referred to orthopedic

The Triage Assessment Form (TAF) is an assessment tool used to measure an individual’s behavior, emotion and thought process during a crisis. This assessment tool provides helping professionals with an understanding of the type of reactions individuals are experiencing as well as the intensity of these reactions during the crisis situation. Unlike many assessment tools that can only be given by licensed professionals, such as psychologists and psychometrists, the TAF can be administered by police officers, school counselors, crisis workers, and many other helping professionals.

Prior to the 1970’s, ambulances were staffed as basic life support (BLS) type units. They would transfer people on a basic level of transport performing “non invasive” interventions. The people who staffed this units were not called EMT’s at this time however were called Ambulance Attendants. They were severed with little medical training and only performed routine interventions. In 1966 there was an article called “The Accidental Death and Disability Report” also called “White Paper”. In this report The National Academy of Sciences Did studies on trauma and shock. This project was a federally funded report of their research which came to the conclusion that both the public and government were "insensitive to the magnitude

Temporary profiles are intended to allow soldiers to properly recover from illness or injury. Commanders must consult with medical personnel to determine what physical training and duty requirements the profiled soldier can perform. The intent of a profile is to assist the soldier in fully returning to duty in the fastest, safest manner possible. Organizational leaders are responsible for the use and monitoring of MEDPROS to measure their unit/individual medical readiness status. Leaders should analyze medical data and generate reports to determine the medical and dental readiness of individuals, units, and task forces. Unit commanders are responsible for monitoring their Soldiers’ Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) and ensuring compliance with all the combined elements of medical readiness. The elements include immunizations, physical profiles/duty limitations, vision, hearing, labs, dental, personal deployment meds, physical health assessment (PHA), individual medical equipment (IME), and pregnancy screening.

On March 14, Lois Holmes with Project Triage, presented the Petal Police Department with 26 trauma kits for their officers and 2 trauma kits for their two K9 officers. The kits were purchased through Project Triage by an anonymous donor. Sergeant Ken Ross, the SWAT Commander for Petal Police Department said, “These kits are very beneficial especially, knowing that 2 of 3 officers killed in the line of duty don’t die from the gunshot wound or stab wound but the substantial blood loss. Every officer needs one of these kits and we are greatly appreciative to receive them.”

Tricare, which was formerly known as the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services, is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System. Tricare provides civilian health benefits for U.S Armed Forces military personnel, military retirees, and their dependents, including some members of the Reserve Component. There are three types of medical plans with Tricare: Standard, Extra, and Prime.

Not all bacteremias lead to sepsis. People have everyday bacteremia, particularly, from oral cavity, but sepsis develops rarely [27-31]. It occurs when the infection is resistant to host antibacterial defense. The latter is different in the bloodstream and tissues. If the infection develops locally (tissue, cavity, etc.) and then enters the bloodstream, there are two stages of sepsis: pre-septic (local) and septic (generalized). If infection enters the bloodstream directly from an external source (contaminated intravenous injection, bite, etc.), the pre-septic stage is absent. Local antibacterial defense is provided by phagocytosis (leukocytes and their local versions: resident macrophages), complement, NETs, etc., whereas in the bloodstream

The name of the organization is American Red Cross. Clara Barton and a couple of her colleagues founded The American Red Cross in Washington D.C. on May 21, 1981 (“A Brief”). Clara Barton became intrigued and even more she become inspired by the Red Cross network in Switzerland, so after she returned to America she campaigned for a Red Cross to be set up in America and to ratify the Geneva Convention which protected injured people in war; the United States ratified it in 1882 (“A Brief”). The American Red Cross received its first congressional charter in 1900, followed by a revised second charter in 1905 (“A Brief”). The most recent version of the charter was adopted in May 2007, and states the traditional purposes of the American Red Cross

Paramedic’s are important people because they are the ones that give medical care while away from the hospital. The need for paramedic’s started back in the 1970s. In a report said in 1965 more people were dying in accidents than in the Korean War. After President Richard Nixon reviewed the effect of of having pre-hospital medical care would help save lives in the event of an accident with needed medical care.

Next in the course is learning how to properly triage patients. The word “triage” is a french word meaning “to sort”. According to the ATLS course, sorting patients is determined by the need for treatment and available resources. If there are

In the hospital facility, the nurses have a triage chart where they follow, there were two setting: civilian and combat. In both setting, there were four categories: delayed/ urgent, immediate or critical, minimal/minor and expectant/catastrophic. However, combat and civilian setting has different process of casualties. In combat setting, the process of priority was immediate, delayed, minimal and expectant. However, in civilian setting the process were critical, catastrophic, urgent and minor.

Aid Station Key will be kept in a key-box under control of Supply NCOIC who is the designated key custodian, when not in use by medical personnel. Medication and temporary medical document file cabinet each have their own key which will also be maintained in another key-box. IAW USAREC Memorandum

There were 163 partipants who attended RTTDC from November 2011 –February 2013. Attendees included nurses, physicians, pre-hospital personnel, respiratory therapists and radiology. After completion participants completed a 16 question survey which was analyzed for participants perceptions of the course. Furthermore 541 cases were reviewed from the hospital’s trauma registry reviewing length of stay (LOS), 6 months and 12 months before and after the implementation of RTTDC (Hlaing Zhu et al., 2011). Analysis of the data showed participants strongly agreed they gained knowledge from the course (18.8%), and agreed intensely that the activity was important (73.3%) Also 6 months after RTTDC, ED LOS was reduced by 18.5 minutes, moreover at 12

There is a trimodal distribution of mortality due to trauma. Patient will die of catastrophic internal injuries within seconds to minutes. Secondly, it is the significant blood loss causing death within minutes to hours. Finally, death due to multi organ failure will take days to weeks. Management within first few hour of injury is critical. We must follow the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) protocol in the initial work up of an injured patient as accepted worldwide. This protocol has two components; primary and secondary survey, which will guide us to systematically identify, treat and re-evaluate the injuries. However, in a case of poly-trauma, patient will be immediately

My counseling says “When you receive information about a soldier being sent to the hospital it is your obligation to inform your chain of command so that information can be passed up the chain and the appropriate actions can be taken if need be. I understand that it might not seem like a very big deal but a soldier getting admitted to the hospital for any reason can take a turn for the worse without notice and also we have to account for the soldier while they are in the hospital. In the future make sure you pass this information up the chain as soon as it is received.”