Flow Diagram of Patient Handling for Radiation Emergency Triage (Text Version)

1. Incoming individuals
2. Triage physician
3. If patient is injured: First aid
4. Otherwise: Go to monitoring station
   • If patient is not contaminated: Go to emergency room or release patient
   • If patient is contaminated:
     • Decontamination shower
     • Monitoring station
     • If patient is still contaminated:
       • Additional decontamination or radiation emergency physician
       • Go back to monitoring station
     • Otherwise: Emergency room or release patient

Adapted from Miller K, Groff L, Erdman M, King S. Lessons learned in preparing to receive large numbers of contaminated individuals. Health Phys. 2005 Aug;89(2 Suppl):S42-7. [PubMed Citation]