Table 1 The explanation of Initial Dispatch Codes (IDC)
From: Thailand medical mobile application for patients triage base on criteria based dispatch protocol
Colors | Triage Criteria | Essential Response |
|---|---|---|
Red | Critical emergency patients | Responsible to pateint with Basic Life Support Unit: (BLS) within 4 mins after accident then responsible to pateint with Advance Life Support unit (ALS) within 8 mins after accident. |
Yellow | Urgent emergency patients | Responsible to pateint with BLS within 8 mins after accident then responsible to pateint with First Response Unit (FR) within 15 mins after accident |
Green | Not urgent emergency patients | Responsible to pateint with BLS within 8 mins after accident. |
White | General patients | Responsible to pateint via telephone referral program and consider to BLS |
Black | Not patients | No responsible to pateint |