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Triage is a procedure for rapidly

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assessing people who are ill or injured

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in order to categorize them according

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to their level of urgency for medical

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care in a mass casualty situation .

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This involves quickly assessing victims ,

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looking at them to determine whether

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they have any obvious serious injuries .

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It might take some physiological

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measurements like a pulse or counting

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respirations . This is a quick

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assessment to determine whether someone

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needs immediate life saving measures or .

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Whether the patient can afford to wait

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for medical care later , so this is the

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first stage of triage , and we call

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this primary triage . There's another

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stage after that which we call

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secondary triage , and that is a

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reassessment and monitoring of

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patients to see if their status has

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changed or if we missed something the

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first time . There are many

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challenges to doing triage in a mass

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casualty situation . We are focusing on

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a couple of them that we think are

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fundamental and where we think we can

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innovate with new technologies . Triage

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as it's done today doesn't scale to

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large numbers of casualties . Triage

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requires a hand . On evaluation and a

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responder can only evaluate one

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casualty at a time . We also need a

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more predictive capability . It's easy

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to determine the care that someone will

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need if they have obvious injuries ,

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for example , if someone has an

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amputation . The difficult problem is

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someone who is not obviously injured ,

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but They may have some internal serious

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injury that won't manifest for some

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time and then it may be too late to

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help them . The work that the

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competitors in the challenge are doing

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are going to lead to technologies that

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will save lives in mass casualty

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situations and even in the regular

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course of clinical care .