True about triage -
- triage consists of rapidly classifying the injured on the basis of severity of their injuries and the likelihood of their survival with prompt medical intervention. - red colour triage indicates high priority treatment or transfer, yellow signals medium priority, green indicates ambulatory patients and black for dead and moribund patients. Reference: Park's textbook of preventive and social medicine, 23rd edition, pg no: 796 <\p>
Yellow-least priority
Red - morbidity
Green-ambulatory
Blue-mabulatory
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