Child under two MITT — DipIMC MCQ

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HardMajor Incident ManagementChild under two MITTDipIMC

During a mass casualty incident, a 14-month-old is crying in a car seat with minor abrasions, normal breathing and no catastrophic bleeding. You are using MITT. What is the triage category?

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Correct answer: D — Priority 1 (red)

Option D is correct because Under the NHS MITT, children under 2 years are treated as Priority 1 because physiological triage is less reliable. Option E is less appropriate because Priority 2 is for serious injury without immediate life-saving criteria; option B is less appropriate because Priority 3 is for walking wounded or minor casualties with stable physiology. Option A is less appropriate because expectant triage is used in exceptional resource-limited circumstances; option C is less appropriate because the stem does not meet criteria for death assignment. Clinical pearl: in DipIMC-style questions, the best answer is the intervention that changes outcome earliest in the pre-hospital phase.

Reference: MIMMS; NHS Major Incident Triage Tool