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Evolution of triage systems

Robertson-Steel, Iain
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Emergency Medical Services
 Integrated Health Care
 Triage
 Trauma Severity Indices
 South Africa
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Emergency Medicine Journal
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/887
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2005.030270
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The French word "trier", the origin of the word "triage", was originally applied to a process of sorting, probably around 1792, by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, Surgeon in Chief to Napoleon's Imperial Guard. Larrey was credited with designing a flying ambulance: the Ambulance Volante. Baron Francois Percy also contributed to the organisation of a care system for the ongoing management of casualties. Out of the French Service de Santé, not only emerged the concept of triage, but the organisational structure necessary to handle the growing number of casualties in modern warfare. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2005.030270 This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2015-000281
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