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Transportation mode determination in non-mass casualty triage

  • US 8,489,419 B2
  • Filed: 01/20/2011
  • Issued: 07/16/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of transportation mode determination in non-mass casualty triage, the method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving, from incident personnel at a casualty scene, a casualty severity score for a victim at a casualty scene;

    assigning, or separately establishing, a survival probability for the casualty severity score based upon at least one characteristic of the respective victim or of an incident responsible for the victim;

    assigning, or separately establishing, a casualty severity score deterioration-with-time rate based upon at least one characteristic of an availability of state-of-the art, or lesser levels of treatment;

    a type of anatomic injury incurred by the victim;

    an age of the victim;

    a mechanism of injury;

    treatment available at the casualty scene;

    treatment available at other facilities;

    distances to the other facilities; and

    facilities or equipment available for performance of care;

    inputting at least the survival probability and the casualty severity score deterioration-with-time rate into a computer; and

    determining by a computer implemented decision logic victim eligibility for Medevac transport, wherein the determination logically factors the survival probability and the casualty severity score deterioration-with-time rate.

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