System and method for tracking victims of a mass casualty incident

A system for tracking victims of a mass casualty incident comprising:

• a plurality of tags each associated with a victim, each tag containing machine-readable data representing information including the victim's triage priority and at least one of:
• (1) an identification code uniquely associated with the victim;
• (2) the nature of the victim's injuries;
• (3) the victim's medical condition;
• (4) the victim's initial treatment;
• and (5) the location to which the victim was transported or assigned;
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• means for producing the machine-readable data for the tag for each victim after arrival at the mass casualty incident such that each victim's triage priority may be determined after evaluating the condition of the victim relative to the other victims.

A system for tracking victims of a mass casualty incident comprising:

• a plurality of tags each associated with a victim, each tag containing machine-readable data representing information including at least one of:
• (1) the victim's triage priority;
• (2) the nature of the victim's injuries;
• (3) the victim's medical condition;
• (4) the victim's initial treatment;
• and (5) the location to which the victim was transported or assigned, wherein said tags contain machine-readable data that is presented in the form of two-dimensional symbology.

A method of sorting and allocating treatment of victims of a mass casualty incident comprising the steps of:

• (a) arriving on a scene of the mass casualty incident;
• (b) locating the victims and determining a triage priority for each of the victims relative to injuries suffered by the other victims;
• (c) providing a tag to be associated with each victim, each tag containing machine-readable two-dimensional symbology representing information including at least a triage priority number representing the victim's triage priority and an identification code uniquely associated with the victim;
• (d) reading the machine-readable two-dimensional symbology;
• (e) displaying the information read in step (d);
• (f) sorting and allocating treatment of the victims based on the triage priority number stored in the machine-readable two-dimensional symbology.