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The art of the save: Triage and the E.R.

April 10, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Triage: the evaluation and categorization of the sick or wounded when there are insufficient resources for medical care of everyone at once.
The Earliest Days of Triage
760-710 BC: Greek physician Pikoulis determines arrow and spear wounds have high mortality rates
1745: From this date on, combat surgeons are used
1793: Baron Dominique Larrey (father of triage): put surgical teams near front lines in the Napoleonic wars
1860s: American Civil War: doctors were clueless about triage
1885: The British Army Medical staff formed
1915: World War I. The French concept of combat surgery. Named it trier…to sort out.

The art of the save: Triage and the E.R.

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