Primary mass casualty incident triage: evidence for the benefit of yearly brief re-training from a simulation study

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-377961
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.37796

Dittmar, Michael S.

; Wolf, Philipp ; Bigalke, Marc ; Graf, Bernhard M. ; Birkholz, Torsten

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Abstract

Background: Triage is a mainstay of early mass casualty incident (MCI) management. Standardized triage protocols aim at providing valid and reproducible results and, thus, improve triage quality. To date, there is little data supporting the extent and content of training and re-training on using such triage protocols within the Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The study objective was to assess ...