Editing Triage (section)

=== World War I ===
In 1914, [[Antoine Depage]] developed the five-tiered ''Ordre de Triage'', a triage system which set specific benchmarks on evacuation, described staged evacuation.<ref>{{Cite web | author = WSJ com News Graphics |title=World War I Centenary: Triage |url=https://online.wsj.com/ww1/triage |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=The Wall Street Journal |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Pollock-2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pollock RA | title = Triage and management of the injured in world war I: the diuturnity of antoine de page and a belgian colleague | journal = Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 63–70 | date = November 2008 | pmid = 22110790 | pmc = 3052731 | doi = 10.1055/s-0028-1098965 }}</ref> [[France|French]] and [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[physician|doctors]] began using these concepts to inform the treatment of casualties at [[aid station]]s behind the front.<ref>{{Cite web | vauthors = Thompson G |title=Battlefield Medicine: Triage-Field Hospital Section |url=https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/history-and-philosophy-of-medicine/archives/wwi/essays/military-medical-operations/triage-field-hospital-section.html |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=Kansas University Medical Center |language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="Pollock-2008" /> Those responsible for the removal of the wounded from a battlefield or their care afterwards would divide the victims into three categories:<ref name="Iserson_2007">{{cite journal | vauthors = Iserson KV, Moskop JC | title = Triage in medicine, part I: Concept, history, and types | journal = Annals of Emergency Medicine | volume = 49 | issue = 3 | pages = 275–281 | date = March 2007 | pmid = 17141139 | doi = 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.05.019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Chipman M, Hackley BE, Spencer TS | title = Triage of mass casualties: concepts for coping with mixed battlefield injuries | journal = Military Medicine | volume = 145 | issue = 2 | pages = 99–100 | date = February 1980 | pmid = 6768037 | doi = 10.1093/milmed/145.2.99 }}</ref>

* Those who are likely to live, regardless of what care they receive;
* Those who are unlikely to live, regardless of what care they receive;
* Those for whom immediate care may make a positive difference in outcome.

From that delineation, aid workers would follow the ''Ordre de Triage'':

==== First Order of Triage ====
[[File:A ward in the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Steenvoorde.jpg|thumb|Casualty Clearing Station as described in the Second Order of Triage]]

In the first order of triage, the injured would be evacuated to clearing stations in the night, when darkness offered maximum protection from the [[German Empire|German forces]].<ref name="Pollock-2008" /><ref name="Lewis-2013">{{Cite web | vauthors = Lewis CH |date=2013-12-15 |title=Triage and Trauma Medicine in United States Military History – Health & Medicine in American History |url=https://lewiscar.sites.grinnell.edu/HistoryofMedicine/uncategorized/triage-and-trauma-medicine-in-united-states-military-history/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |language=en}}</ref>

==== Second Order of Triage ====
Once at a casualty clearing station, wounds were dressed,<ref name="Lewis-2013" /> and anyone requiring immediate surgical intervention was placed in a cart and brought immediately to an ambulance pickup area. If the wounded could wait, they would be evacuated by ambulance during the night.<ref name="Pollock-2008" />

==== Third Order of Triage ====
Ambulances, driven by [[YMCA]] and [[American Red Cross]] trained drivers then removed the casualties to [[Mobile Army Surgical Hospital|mobile surgical centers]], called ''postes avances des hospitaux du front'' or outposts of the frontline hospitals.<ref name="Pollock-2008" /><ref name="Lewis-2013" />

==== Fourth Order of Triage ====
At the mobile surgical hospitals, the most severe cases were treated, specifically those who were likely to die before reaching a permanent, more equipped hospital. Anyone who could survive the trip was transported to a farther away, often costal, hospital.<ref name="Pollock-2008" /><ref name="Lewis-2013" />

==== Fifth Order of Triage ====
Upon reaching a permanent hospital, casualties received appropriate care to treat all of their injuries.<ref name="Pollock-2008" /><ref name="Lewis-2013" />