Triage under trial

摘要

IT WAS Dominique-Jean Larrey, a rugged French military surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Armee, who came up with the system of triage. On the battlefield Larrey, who tended to the wounded at the battle of Waterloo, had to determine which soliders needed medical attention most urgently, regardless of their military rank. In doing so he came up with the concept of distinguishing between urgent and non-urgent patients. Triage, from the French trier ("separate out") remains as useful today as it was in the Napoleonic campaigns.