Triage

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

RITN℠ Radiation Injury Referral Guidelines

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

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. 

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

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

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 (Opens in a new tab)

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 (Opens in a new tab)

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

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 (Opens in a new tab) (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 (Opens in a new tab) (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 (Opens in a new tab) (PDF