Got an Opinion about CDC's Field Triage Guidelines?

As with all guidelines, the Field Triage Guidelines need to be updated. Just like CDC revises immunization guidelines, we anticipate we'll be updating these guidelines in a few years. Or even sooner if there's compelling evidence we need to change them in the best interest of our patients.

So, I would like to also hear your reactions—positive, neutral, or negative—to the actual criteria. How does it, or will it, impact what you do everyday? Do you have research that points toward a need for considering changing the criteria in the future?

What you think really matters! When the National Expert Panel on Field Triage works on revising the guidelines, I'll ask that your comments on this blog be reviewed and considered.

Register for the Webcast on the Field Triage Decision Scheme: The National Trauma Triage Protocol.

Also, while it says CDC on the Guidelines (with extraordinary support of NHTSA and the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma), these Guidelines really are intended to be OUR national Guidelines, with national input. We want to hear from you!