[1] JumpSTART was created in 1995 by Dr. Lou Romig, a pediatric emergency and disaster physician working at Miami Children's Hospital.
[2] Like START, JumpSTART sorts patients into four categories:[1] Immediate: Life-threatening injury; needs medical attention within the next hour Delayed: Non-life-threatening injuries; needs medical attention, but treatment can be delayed a few hours Minor: Minor injuries; may need medical attention in the next few days ("the walking wounded") Deceased or expectant: Deceased, or injuries so severe that life-saving treatment cannot be provided with the resources available As with START, the triage clinician begins by instructing everyone who can walk to move to a designated area for treatment.
[1] However, unlike START, patients who do not have a spontaneous return of respirations following an airway maneuver are not immediately triaged Black.
[3] Within the medical literature, the existing studies of JumpSTART generally examine its use in training or simulated MCI settings.
For example, a study of prehospital and nursing personnel found that participants showed improvements in their ability to triage pediatric patients which were maintained over a 3-month period after training ceased.
[4] Similarly, a 2013 study found that medical residents in all postgraduate years easily learned the JumpSTART algorithm, with high inter-rater reliability in individual patient triage decisions.
The study examined how four different tools would have performed if used to triage pediatric patients that presented at the authors' emergency department.