Triage

Use these tools as concise guidelines for identifying casualties in the aftermath of a radiation incident who may have received a clinically significant dose of radiation.

RITN℠ Radiation Injury Referral Guidelines

Provides hospitals with a concise guide for identifying casualties in the aftermath of a radiation incident who may have received a clinically significant dose of radiation.

RITN Radiation Injury Referral Guidelines (PDF)

Cytokine Administration Triage Guidelines for Acute Radiation Syndrome (Adult and Pediatric)

Gives physicians, advanced practitioners, and nurses (medical providers) simple myeloid cytokine triage guidelines to assist with the administration of these pharmaceuticals to adult and pediatric casualties in the immediate aftermath of a radiological disaster.

4x6 format (PDF) 8.5x11 format (PDF) 24x36 format (PDF)

Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) Triage Tools

Printable posters of triage flow for patients possibly exposed to radiation.

Prehospital Radiation Triage (PDF)
Radiation Patient Triage and Treatment (PDF)

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) website operated by the Department of Health and Human Services

This estimator provides three means (time to onset of vomiting, lymphocyte depletion kinetics, and Dicentric Chromosome Assay) of estimating the absorbed dose of casualties exposed to ionizing radiation after a radiation incident.

REMM Dosimetry Estimator

REMM Tool to Determine Triage Category and Myeloid Cytokine Use after a Nuclear Detonation

The goals of this tool are to recommend triage categories for managing very large numbers of victims with injury, burns and/or radiation exposure based on patient factors, availability of resources at the medical center where it is used, recommend priorities for using white cell (myeloid) cytokines when availability of this drug is limited by the number of patients who might need it and provide the greatest good to the greatest number of patients using fair and ethical principles.

REMM Interactive Triage Tool

Exposure and Symptom Triage (EAST) Tool - Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

Assess radiation exposure after a nuclear detonation.

Exposure And Symptom Triage (EAST) tool (PDF)

REMM Instructions

Pocket Guides

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute Emergency Radiation Medicine Response Pocket Guide

This guide helps you quickly assess and control an emergency. It defines radiation exposure and describes steps in diagnosis, treatment, decontamination, and reporting.

AFRRI Pocket Guide - Emergency Radiation Medicine Response (PDF)

The European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Acute Radiation Syndrome Therapeutic Management Pocket Guide

Describes the European approach for therapeutical medical management of mass radiation exposure.

EBMT Pocket Guide (PDF)

CDC Radiological Terrorism: Emergency Management Pocket Guide for Clinicians

A quick reference for clinicians, including physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, who will provide emergency care in a hospital setting following a radiological terrorism incident.

Download the pocket guide (PDF