1. MCI Treatment Tag Overview
Presented by: King County EMS

2. Objectives Notification of a new designed tag
Identify the differences on the tag
Removal of all other tags in your system
Review the distribution process

3. Why are we changing? IMPROVE CONSISTENCY:
One style tag for every agency.
Greater familiarization in a large scale incident.
Eliminate multiple styles of tags in the system.

4. Who has supported and approved the change?
King County Fire Chiefs
Seattle Fire Department
NW regional pre-hospital trauma committee
Dr. Copass HMC/Seattle Medic One
King County EMS
All King County Zones 1-5 ALS Reps

5. FRONT side of the new tag
Top part of tag stays with patient to the hospital.
The bottom gets torn off and held at the transport area.

6. FRONT side of the new tag
Patient info gets filled out on both top and bottom.

7. FRONT side of the new tag
“Write in the rain” paper

8. FRONT side of the new tag
Hole to run triage tape through and/or mark RED-YELLOW-GREEN

9. FRONT side of the new tag
Sequential patient numbering

10. FRONT side of the new tag
Optional patient numbering

11. BACK side of the new tag Refers to Mass Gross decon
Name or number of the bus, train, airplane
Name of agent, if possible

12. BACK side of the new tag LOC Information Glasgow Coma Scale
2 sets of vital signs

13. BACK side of the new tag Patient Information Destination hospital
Time left Transport Area

14. Tag Use Options to numbering patients:
Write your own patient numbering
Use the red sequential numbering
2. IC or the Medical Group needs to establish what numbering system should be used for the incident.
3. Tag number gets filled out at the funnel point.
4. Tag gets attached to patient using the colored triage tape.

15. Distribution Process
King County EMS will be the lead agency to provide treatment tags for all departments.
Each agency will be provided an initial amount of tags to use.
Additional replacement tags are to be requested through King County EMS.

16. Additional Requests
Please remove all tags currently being used at your agency once the new tags arrive.
This new tag is the only approved treatment tag for King County.
Thank you for your time and effort to help improve our MCI system.