Six men were taken to the emergency room at the DeTar Hospital Navarro, where their body temperatures, even after the time spent in triage at the scene and the ambulance ride, were as high as 105 degrees, said Jerrel Robinowich, director of the hospital's public relations.
Triage from the scene of more stable patients to hospitals outside the immediate area did not occur due to the loss of OEM coordination.
The Syrian Civil Defense (SCD), a group of nurses, firefighters, and first responders, were always the first ones on the scene, triaging victims and helping to transport them to local hospitals.
Secondary end points were the proportion of severely injured patients secondarily transferred to the trauma centre, 30-day mortality, and on-scene triage.
The TRENAU aims at directing the most severe patients to a Level I or Level II center by an adequate on-scene triage.
Collected data included transport mode, demographics, time intervals (from EMS activation until destination hospital), mechanism of injury, type of injury, highest level of triaging authority on scene, and initial on-scene and in-hospital vital signs.
For example, his work at the World Trade Center Disaster after 9/11 led him to examine the role of medical teams deployed under the U.S. Federal Response Plan as well as triage practices at the scene.
While the first tasks in disaster management are to secure the scene, to triage, and to evacuate victims to definitive care, the disaster plan fails if it stops at the hospital door.
No patients that remained on scene were triaged orange or red.
Triage was performed on-scene, and the injured were transported to several hospitals.
