A bus carrying school children of various ages and their chaperones on a field trip loses control, slams into a median, then rolls. You are the triage officer.
A bus carrying school children of various ages and their chaperones on a field trip loses control, slams into a median, then rolls. You are the triage officer.
Practice your triage skills
Practice your triage skills
A young school aged boy is found lying on the roadway 10 ft from the bus.
Breathing 10/min
Good distal pulse
Groans to painful stimuli
An adult kneels at the side of the road, shaking his head. He says he’s too dizzy to walk.
RR 20
CR 2 sec
Obeys commands
A school aged girl crawls out of the wreckage. She’s able to stand and walk toward you crying.
Jacket and shirt torn
No obvious bleeding
A toddler lies with his lower body trapped under a seat inside the bus.
Apneic
Remains apneic with modified jaw thrust
No pulse
Adult female driver still in the bus, trapped by her lower legs under caved-in dash.
RR 24
Cap refill 4 sec
Moans with verbal stimulus
A toddler lies among the wreckage.
RR 50
Palpable distal pulse
Withdraws from painful stimulus
A woman is carrying a crying infant. She is able to walk.
RR 20
CR 2 sec
Obeys commands
An infant is carried by the previous victim.
He’s screaming but the woman quiets him to RR of 34
Good distal pulse
Focuses on rescuer, reaches for mom.
No obvious significant external injuries.
A young school aged boy props himself up on the road.
RR 28
Good distal pulse
Answers question and commands.
Has obvious deformity of both lower legs.
A school aged girl lies among the wreckage.
RR 40
Absent distal pulse
Withdraws from painful stimulus
A screaming infant is found among the bushes at the side of the road.
RR 38
Good distal pulse
Focuses and reaches for you.
Has a partial amputation of the foot without active bleeding.
An adult male lies inside the bus.
Apneic
Remains apneic with jaw thrust
A youngster is up and walking around but is limping
Alert, crying hysterically for his mother
A school aged boy lies close to the bus.
RR 36
Absent distal pulse
Sluggishly looks at you when you talk to him
A young teen girl lies among the wreckage, crying for someone to help her up. A man with her says she needs her wheelchair.
RR 22
Palpable distal pulse
Alert
Has minor cuts and bruises
An older school aged child is found sitting outside the bus.
RR 28
Good distal pulse
Groggy, confused and slowly follows commands but won’t get up and walk.