Talk:Field triage

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The field triage page is an important resource for EMS providers. The CDC released the new Field Triage Decision Scheme: the National Trauma Triage Protocol educational initiative on Jan. 22, 2009. The Decision Scheme is an essential component of the emergency care system. It helps guide EMS providers in transporting injured patients to the most appropriate facility, ensuring proper care and reducing the consequences of injury and death.

Each year, 41 million people are injured and require treatment in emergency departments. In accordance with the recommendations of the 2006 Institute of Medicine report on the state of emergency care in the U.S., CDC convened a panel of experts to examine existing care and develop a vision to improve this segment of the health care system.

The Decision Scheme was developed after an extensive review of the literature by the National Expert Panel on Field Triage in collaboration with the American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma and with support from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Panel, which included representatives from EMS, emergency medicine, trauma surgery, the automotive industry, public health, and several federal agencies, brought a wider range of disciplines and expertise into the revision process than ever before.

Each day EMS providers work to get every patient to the right place, at the right time, by making rapid on-scene triage decisions. In achieving this goal, they help ensure that more Americans live to their full potential.

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Substantial portions of this article are directly copied from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5801a1.htm. That is a public domain source, so it is not a copyright infringement, but it is plagiarism to copy someone else's work without attribution. You need to write an article in your own words, and attribute any quotations from the work of others. If this is not corrected promptly, the unattributed material is going to be removed from the article. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]