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Area of Science:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Disaster Response
  • Health Systems Research

Background:

  • Urban emergency medical services increasingly focus on mass casualty incident (MCI) response.
  • Prehospital triage strategies are critical for effective MCI management.
  • Optimizing patient flow and treatment initiation is a key challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To simulate prehospital triage scenarios in a mass casualty incident (MCI).
  • To evaluate if using hospital blood product inventories for on-scene triage decisions minimizes time to treatment.
  • To compare the effectiveness of different triage strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Discrete event simulations modeled MCI casualty injury and patient flow after a simulated blast event.
  • Casualties were categorized as moderate (Injury Severity Score 9-15) or severe (Injury Severity Score >15).
  • Three triage scenarios were compared: Nearest, Equal distribution, and Supply-Guided (using blood inventories).

Main Results:

  • Simulated MCIs generated an average of 302 casualties, including 57 moderate and 15 severe.
  • The Supply-Guided strategy (91%) and Equal distribution (86%) significantly outperformed Nearest triage (55%) in treating casualties within target timeframes (p < 0.001).
  • Differences were primarily driven by moderate casualties; severe casualty treatment times were similar across strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Nearest hospital triage is inferior to equal distribution or a Supply-Guided strategy in MCI simulations.
  • Disaster response leaders should model MCI scenarios considering hospital capacity and blood product availability.
  • Supply-Guided triage, informed by real-time inventory, offers a superior approach to optimizing patient care during mass casualty events.