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During a disaster exercise, a patient has a severe penetrating head injury, the patient is not responding to pain and his GCS is 5.
This patient should put under the immediate - sever (Red) category because this patient needs immediate medical attention to survive and his prognosis is also low.
Answer - immediate - sever (Red) category
Other categories involve
Minimal (Green) - Injured but can walk, injury level is minimal and less chance of blood loss
Injured - Moderate (Yellow) - This type of patient requires medical attention but not immediately, these injuries are not life-threatening.
Presumed Deceased (Black) - Died patients or who need CPR
black due to penetrating head injury
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