INCIDENT TYPES
This incident type involves the transport of more than 5 but less than 10 patients.
What is a Small Scale Incident?
In a Small Scale incident, this is the first hospital you contact.
What is the closest appropriate hospital?
Region X has adopted this triage tag system as its standard.
What is the SMART tag system or START Tag System?
This ICS position oversees triage, treatment, and transportation at a multiple patient incident.
What is the Medical Group Supervisor?
This type of accident involving minors is governed by a separate Region X policy aimed at reducing unnecessary hospital transports.
What is a school bus accident?
At this patient count, an incident becomes Medium Scale.
What is 10 patients?
In a Medium or Large Scale incident, you contact this hospital immediately.
What is the Resource Hospital?
This color triage tag indicates a Priority 1 — Immediate patient.
What is RED?
This unit leader is responsible for assigning destination hospitals to each transporting ambulance.
What is the Transportation Unit Leader?
In a Category A school bus accident, all children are transported. In these two lower categories, uninjured children may be discharged to parents or school officials.
What are Category B and Category C?
This incident type generally extends beyond the capabilities of local control and may require multiple operational periods.
What is a Large Scale Incident?
During a Medium or Large Scale incident, transporting ambulances do NOT contact this entity prior to arrival.
What is the receiving hospital?
This triage method is used for pediatric patients at a multiple patient incident.
What is JumpSTART?
A hospital on bypass status MUST still receive patients from incidents of this scale.
What is Medium or Large Scale?
During a healthcare facility evacuation, this triage method is used inside the facility before patients are moved.
What is Reverse Triage?
In a Medium Scale incident, this document may be required to outline the plan for each operational period.
What is an Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
If the number of patients exceeds what the provider's 5 closest hospitals can accept, the Resource Hospital notifies this organization.
What is the RHCC (Regional Hospital Coordinating Center)?
During this type of incident, triage tags are NOT used and rapid assessment determines patient category.
What is a Small Scale Incident?
Once the Resource Hospital is contacted for a Medium/Large incident, all subsequent communication must flow through this entity — NOT dispatch, NOT the scene directly.
What is the Resource Hospital?
In a Small Scale incident, no more than this many patients may be sent to a single hospital without prior approval.
What is 2 patients?
This note reminds providers that some Medium/Large Scale incidents may create an overwhelming increase in this type of patient who were never transported by EMS.
What are walk-in patients?
When the closest appropriate hospital cannot accept all patients from a Small Scale incident and the provider wants to send more than two patients to a single hospital, this person at the closest hospital must contact the desired hospital to confirm prior to transport.
Who is the ECRN (Emergency Communications Registered Nurse)?
Triage tags are excepted from mandatory use during incidents involving mass shootings or this type of injury, where rapid transport is favored instead.
What is truncal penetrating trauma?
After a Medium or Large Scale incident, an After-Action Report must be faxed to the Resource Hospital EMS Office within this many days.
What is 7 days?
A pregnant patient beyond this gestational age should preferentially be transported to a facility with emergency obstetrics capabilities.
What is 20 weeks?