Triage Tagging (Mass Casualty)

Category: infrastructure

A coding system using colored tags to categorize victims during mass casualty incidents (MCIs).

In MCIs, resources are overwhelmed. Red tags indicate immediate survival needs (airway, hemorrhage); Yellow indicates urgent/stable; Green is for "walking wounded"; Black is for deceased. The goal is to maximize total lives saved, rather than focusing solely on the most critical individual cases.

Common Examples

• The triage tagging protocol allowed the field medics to stabilize the most treatable casualties first during the local emergency event.
• Every nurse received training on triage tagging metrics to ensure we correctly prioritized patients when the ward capacity reached the breaking point.