That's a lot of wrist charts.
Let's hope we don't need them all. Were you at the last mass-casualty faculty meeting?
Oh, no. I was still a resident three months ago.
Right. Wow. Well, one patient at a time, right? The goal is to triage each patient in ten seconds.
Ten seconds, got it.
Mental status is [w:AVPU|]]. Alert, response to verbal, response to pain, unresponsive.
Yep.
Next, do they have a pulse? Radial, carotid, or femoral tells you where to send them. That's it.
OK. Cool. Oh, I heard it might rain today.
John?
Yeah, man.
Mental status and pulse gives you everything you need.
Cool.
Unresponsive with no pulses, slap a black and white band on them, send them to the morgue. Responds to pain with a faint groan, weak femoral pulse, no radial?
Uh, red.
Right. Slap a red band on them, send them back. Awake, alert with strong radial?
Trick question. Could be green, Family Medicine for scrapes or sprains, but stable, penetrating extremity wounds go to yellow.
Perfect.
Dude, relax. I got the front door. You worry about the back.
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