Multiple-casualty incident patient tracking

摘要

A method for tracking multiple injured victims at a multiple injury scene to provide information on their medical status and their location to emergency personnel and to treatment facilities, the method including examining the injured victims at said scene to determine the medical condition of said victims, attaching a tag to each of said victims to identify said victim and to indicate said medical condition of said victim, said tag having machine-readable information thereon indicating the identity and medical condition of said victim, and said tag having visually readable colors thereon indicating the urgency of treatment needed by the victim, scanning and transmitting said machine-readable information on each of said victims to victim transportation units and other emergency personnel at said scene to enable transport personnel to determine which victims are in most urgent need of transport to a medical treatment facility, and transmitting said machine-readable information on each of said victims to medical treatment facilities to which the victims may be transported.