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The history of Triage

Triage has been around for a long time and has been used for many different reasons. Triage has been used for disasters of many types like, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina or man made disasters such as 9/11. The use of Triage is very necessary and vital to the survival of the most people to survive in a disaster by sorting by severity or likely hood to live. While triage is necessary and vital it does come with down sides, very big one's. Using Triage sometimes means that you are going to prioritize one person over the other which could cause the person not receiving treatment to die. Legally you will have to defend your decision and prove that you did't essentially commit murder. The other down side is the huge ethical and moral battle that is waging inside yourself when using triage. Every doctor and every nurse wants to save everyone; however, this sometimes just simply isn't possible and forces them to make some really hard and possibly life ending decisions.

Triage has a long history of use because there is always fighting and war and disasters that occur. The first recorded time triage was used was in 1792, by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, Surgeon in Chief to Napoleon's Imperial Guard.