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It’s the military, it sounds silly because it is to normal people. But when you have thousands of troops in combat and hundreds of dead and wounded, how would
by newsclues 3y ago
It’s the military, it sounds silly because it is to normal people.
But when you have thousands of troops in combat and hundreds of dead and wounded, how would you triage under fire?
This is a current problem in active wars.
- mcswell 3y agoThere is also a triage nurse in every ER, whose duty it is to decide who gets treated first. However, of the three triage categories, one hopes in an ER that few if any patients will fall into the category of "dies even with help". But I suppose gunshot victims could fall into that category.
- newsclues 3y agoThis is an issue before the ER or even stabilization point. You have a battlefield spread out over miles, with dead and wounded all over, and limited resources to pickup the wounded. This is about triage prior to sending people out of a bunker into an active combat zone to rescue wounded, not waste time on bodies or people that are going to die before they get to the ER.
- davidthewatson 3y agoThat's right. It's been a problem in war for decades. I'm happy to see a return to the defensive survival evacuation and triage role for AI, CV, and robotics as opposed to the regression from that role into autonomous killing machines. Building an Alan Alda MASH persona along with supporting performers and portrayers is not a bad idea, even if the dragging on the sled requires much less intelligence save for the head-banging of the injured that's tough to avoid and manage.