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Flow Diagram of Patient Handling for Radiation Emergency Triage (Text Version)
- Incoming individuals
- Triage physician
- If patient is injured: First aid
- Otherwise: Go to monitoring station
- If patient is not contaminated: Go to emergency room or release patient
- If patient is contaminated:
- Decontamination shower
- Monitoring station
- If patient is still contaminated:
- Additional decontamination or radiation emergency physician
- Go back to monitoring station
- Otherwise: Emergency room or release patient
Adapted from Miller K, Groff L, Erdman M, King S. Lessons learned in preparing to receive large numbers of contaminated individuals. Health Phys. 2005 Aug;89(2 Suppl):S42-7. [PubMed Citation]
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