title: Bombings specific triage (Bost Tool) tool and its application by healthcare professionals.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Bombing is a unique incident which produces unique patterns, multiple and occult injuries. Death often is a result of combined blast, ballistic and thermal effect injuries. Various natures of injury, self referrals and arrival by private transportation may lead to "wrong triage" in the emergency department. In India there has been an increase in incidence of bombing in the last 15 years. There is no documented triage tool from the National Disaster Management Authority of India for Bombings. We have tried to develop an ideal bombing specific triage tool which will guide the right patients to the right place at the right time and save more lives.
  
  
  METHODS
  There are three methods of studying the triage tool: 1) real disaster; 2) mock drill; 3) table top exercise. In this study, a table top exercise method was selected. There are two groups, each consisting of an emergency physician, a nurse and a paramedic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  By using the proportion test, we found that correct triaging was significantly different (P=0.005) in proportion between the two groups: group B (80%) with triage tool performed better in triaging the bomb blast victims than group A (50%) without the bombing specific triage tool performed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Development of bombing specific triage tool can reduce under triaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Jaiswal
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanjay
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Verma
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ankur
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Kole
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tamorish
keywords: Blast Injuries; Bombing; Terrorist Bombings; Triage