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Review the main points of START triage Slide One Title slide and class outline Explain how class will be conducted 1) Review Web materials 2) Review Web exercise 3) Conduct scenarios 4) Feedback form Purpose of START Slide Two The START triage system relies on making a rapid assessment (taking less than a minute) of every patient, determining which of four categories patients should be in, and visibly identifying the categories for rescuers who will treat the patients http://www.citmt.org/start/background.htm Triage tags Slide Three Color-coded: Black deceased Red immediate Yellow delayed Green - minor Tear off strips until the bottom remaining tag matches the patient designation http://www.citmt.org/start/tag.htm START flowchart Slide Four Walking Wounded Respirations: Open airway, fast respirations Perfusion: External bleeding, capillary refill Mental status: Unconscious or difficulty following directions 30 2 Can do Web site triage exercise Discuss any consistent discrepancies you found.. Use these discussions to emphasize the basic points of the START triage system: It is a quick assessment and assignment to categories, not a full assessment and intervention That you continue the assessment only until you have enough information to assign a category, then you move on That patients are being assigned to different resources depending on how life-threatening their injuries are and that full assessments and interventions will be conducted by these rescuers That ALL patients will be treated That failing to move quickly may cost other patients their lives..