Patent ID: 8489419

Claim:
A method of transportation mode determination in non-mass casualty triage, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from incident personnel at a casualty scene, a casualty severity score for a victim at a casualty scene; assigning, or separately establishing, a survival probability for the casualty severity score based upon at least one characteristic of the respective victim or of an incident responsible for the victim; assigning, or separately establishing, a casualty severity score deterioration-with-time rate based upon at least one characteristic of an availability of state-of-the art, or lesser levels of treatment; a type of anatomic injury incurred by the victim; an age of the victim; a mechanism of injury; treatment available at the casualty scene; treatment available at other facilities; distances to the other facilities; and facilities or equipment available for performance of care; inputting at least the survival probability and the casualty severity score deterioration-with-time rate into a computer; and determining by a computer implemented decision logic victim eligibility for Medevac transport, wherein the determination logically factors the survival probability and the casualty severity score deterioration-with-time rate.