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'''Triage Tags''' is a tool first responders and medical personnel use to effectively and efficiently distribute limited resources and provide the necessary care for the injured people during a mass causality incident i.e., [[Triage|triage]]. The concept behind triage tags was first introduced by [[Dominique Jean Larrey|Baron Dominique Jean Larrey]], a French surgeon in [[Napolean|Napolean’s]] army. Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment ([[Simple triage and rapid treatment|START]]) is a strategy that the first responders and medical personnel employ to evaluate the severity of injury of each victim as quickly as possible, usually about 30-60 seconds per victim. Triage tags are used to better classifycategorize information about the patients so that when more help arrives, the patients are easily recognizable to foreascertain tellthe whatmost caredire they needcases.

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* A section with a full pictorial view of the human body. The medical personnel indicates which parts of the body are injured.

===CatgoriesCategories===

There are three basic categories of a triage tag (from top-to-bottom):

* tear off sections to label the victim properly in terms of severity of injury and to inform other medical personnel, that may arrive later, of the victim’s status.