Emergency triage includes all of the following except
1. Assessing victims in the shortest period possible.
2. Doing as little as possible for the greatest number of victims in the shortest time.
3. Identifying and treating all of the direct and indirect victims of the disaster/emergency.
4. Sorting causalities based on the severity of their injuries.
ANS: 3
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