The mobile triage tags / Nurul Elyani Zainal Baharin

Quick response is critical during an emergency situation. Medical care at mass casualty incidents and disasters requires rapid patient triage and assessment, acute care and disposition is often in the setting of overwhelming numbers of victims, limited time, and little resources. Current systems rely on a paper triage tag on which rescuers and medical providers mark the patient's triage status and record limited information on injuries and treatments administered in the field. Hence, this project is run to describes a system based on mobile electronic triage tags that makes victim information available at the base of operations as soon as possible, thus allowing a fast planning of medical resource allocation and immediate action. This novel approach is ready to be used in the worst case scenario, where only small handheld devices carried by the emergency personnel are available. The system has been successfully implemented, showing the feasibility of the proposal. By using this low-budget system, the number of casualties during the triage stage of an emergency is expected to drop off.