Triage considerations: nuclear detonation

* This column contains the conventional military triage treatment system for subjects with significant mechanical trauma or burns. The categories are defined as follows: Delayed treatment: Medically stable with significant injury, but may survive until definitive treatment is available; Immediate treatment: Subjects with high survivability and significant injury, provided that immediate therapy is available; Minimal therapy: Medically stable subjects with minor injury; Expectant therapy: Subjects who are seriously injured in whom survivability is poor.
¶ Subjects with radiation injury alone and an exposure of <1.5 Gy should be monitored in an ambulatory setting. Those with exposures >1.5 Gy should be given routine care (eg, cytokines, antimicrobial agents, transfusions, laboratory monitoring) and hospitalization, if required, as indicated in the text.