HESI 4 Critical Care MCA 3 Practice Test 2026 – Complete Exam Prep

In mass casualty triage, color tags quickly show who should be treated first and who isn’t expected to benefit from care given the situation. The color system typically uses red for immediate life-saving needs, yellow for delayed care, green for minor injuries, and black for those who are dead or not expected to survive with the resources available. A client assigned to class IV falls into the most severe, non-salvageable category, so the black tag is used. This signals that while others receive attention to maximize overall survival, this patient is not a priority for life-saving interventions at that moment. The other colors would be for patients who are salvageable and can benefit from urgent or delayed care.