Major Incident

Ah. Sunday. A day of rest. A day of roast dinners. Or, If you were part of St John North Yorkshire and Teesside the major incident workshop day. Ah yes. I am now fully certified in knowing how to deal with a major incident and ran through triage. I even did 2 exercises in magaing it. One was a written list of casualties and what triage level I would put them at. Basically, Green is walking woulded. Yellow: Not walking but obs stable. Red is immediate attention (not walking, obs out of range) and white is...erm, how can I put this. Dead. Unlike a normal situation, anyone needing CPR at a mass-cas situation/Major emergency is left for dead. Its not nice. Trouble is, while you would waste time CRP-ing a body, the patient with femoral bleed could be saved. Hard but thats life.

I have provided a tounge-in-cheek take on the day on the diagram. I wrote the original on a scrap of paper.