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Triage

Save patients by using Triage Bandages to tend to their wounds. You must save 15 patients before 6 of them die from their injuries.

Remember the order of triage! Critically Injured Soldiers die the fastest followed by Badly Injured Soldiers. Injured Soldiers take the longest to die and should be saved AFTER your Critically Injured and Badly Injured Soldiers have been triaged.
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15 Patients Saved!
Provided Item:
Triage Bandage

Description

Good day, doctor. You will be tested on your ability to triage patients accordingly this afternoon. Should you pass your examination, you will join the prestigious ranks of Horde Trauma.

Now pay attention! The critically injured must be tended to first. After the criticals come the badly injured. The injured should be tended to last. You must save 15 patients to pass this exam. You will fail should 6 of your patients die in triage.

Triage bandages will be supplied.

Good luck, doctor.

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Reward

You will learn:
First Aid
You will also receive: 0

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 3900 experience ( 23 40 at max. level)

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Rating: +111 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 10/08/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Arathi Highlands.&nbsp Inside the building to the SW.
Fortunately, u dont have to go anywhere or kill anything hence it's a good one to do when you're waiting on a party or whatever.

U can do this quest over and over again.

DON'T bother with your bandages- the quest giver will give you special bandages "triage bandages".&nbsp The first time, equip your triage bandages on a numbered hotkey.&nbsp This will take a moment so abandon the quest when finished.&nbsp Then accep the quest again.&nbsp This will give you even more bandages.

My strategy was to stand in one spot where I could heal 4 of the beds without moving.

Heal with this priority:
1 critically injured
2 badly injured
3 Any injured who talks about dying
4 Whoever respawned first

To heal, i click then hit the hotkey.
While healing, click your next target.&nbsp As soon as the heal is complte, hit your hotkey.&nbsp Then choose your next target.

Using this strategy, u may only have to do the quest a couple of times.
Rating: +69 [-] [+]
By danyjr on 12/07/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Horde

Once you hit a character level of 40 and with at least 225 in your First Aid skill visit Arnok, in The Valley of Spirit, Orgrimmar who will give you the quest "Horde Trauma" which sends you off to see Doctor Gregory Victor in Hammerfall who will ask for you to assist him in healing patients in a quest called "Triage" which asks you to save the lives of 15 of his patients.

Alliance

Once you hit a character level of 40 and with at least 225 in your First Aid skill visit Nissa Firestone, in The Great Forge, Ironforge who will give you the quest "Alliance Trauma" which sends you off to see Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh. Doctor VanHowzen will ask for you to assist him in healing patients in a quest called "Triage" which asks you to save the lives of 15 of his patients.
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Triage BandagesBoth doctors will instruct you to heal the critically injured first but it's advisable to let them die because unless you start healing them as soon as they spawn they'll usually die on you anyway and that's time wasted, time that you could have been healing a badly injured person instead. The Dr will give you 20 Triage bandages to perform the healing with. Below are some tips to completing this.

1. Press Ctrl V to activate the health bar over the heads of the patients for easy health monitoring.
2. Pull your camera out to third person so you can see as much of the room as possible. Tick "Show NPC names" in Interface Options and also press "V" on your keyboard.
3. Put the triage bandages the doctor gave you in your aciton bar. Do not use your own.
4. Position yourself in the middle of the room.
5. To see all around the room you can either hold down the left mouse button to swivel the camera around you or the right mouse button to actually swivel yourself around on the spot, whichever you find allows you to click on dying patients easier. In the Horde hospital you don't even need to swivel really.
6. When a patient appears, dying, click on the Triage bandage in your action bar to begin healing.
7. Keep your eye on other patients, swivel yourself or camera round as described above to monitor spawns all around you.
8. When you see another appear left click on them to pre-select them and as soon as your current heal has finished click the bandages in your action bar and the pre-selected one will begin to heal. Saves valuable seconds this way.

As the patients are healed they'll jump up, cheer and then run to the Dr. If you fail (6 patients die) throw any remaining Triage bandages away and re-request the quest from the Doctor, he'll give you a fresh batch of bandages.
Rating: +64 [-] [+]
By culibine on 12/09/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
I would just like to correct danyjr slightly.

This quest is available for horde when:
(1) you are level 35 (not 40)
(2) you have 225 First Aid

I'm sure this is the same for Alliance, but have not been able to check.

Also, this was verified in Patch 2.01.
Rating: +61 [-] [+]
By zuzzy on 05/09/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
A little notice:
Undead patient --> Critically Injured
Troll patient --> Badly Injured
Orc patient --> Injured
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By Anonymous on 09/01/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
btw, you have to be 225 in order to get the quest in the first place
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By Tinaden on 01/31/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, but Icy Veins and Beserking both reduce the channeling time.
Rating: +23 [-] [+]
By entropicdragon on 03/24/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
When the quest is active, new soldiers will spawn on empty blankets after a short period of time (whether the blanket is empty due to death or to a successful heal.) Thus, if you try to heal the soldiers in a specific order (for example, standing in the middle and healing clockwise in a circle), you will be able to keep track more easily of which soldiers have been spawned the longest (and are therefore closer to death).
Rating: +21 [-] [+]
By Azair on 04/08/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
Hello! There is no book for this. In fact I just did this today on my paladin to get Master First Aid skill, 225 - 300 and learn Heavy Mageweave Bandage. The quest is called Triage and is at Hammerfall, Arathi. I do have a few tips though; several of the Wowhead comments that are displayed are out of date.
  1. The health bar of each person on the 'beds' will always be full until they 'despawn' aka die.
  2. Do the Critical first, then badly, lastly the injured. Also try to remember who spawned when so you can get a set order in mind.
  3. Once you saved 15, turn in the quest immediately. I failed it on my druid because I waited, and 6 patients died while I waited which turned 'completed' to 'failed'.
  4. Make sure you have about 10 minutes of spare time to do this with no interruptions.
  5. Stand in the middle row, in the middle of the grwowhead:1,id:

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  6. You may fail a few times, but don't give up! You'll get it down.
  7. Casting Speed increase spells/gems will also increase how fast you are 'bandaging'
  8. Target your next 'patient' while bandaging your first one so it will be faster.
Rating: +20 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
The first couple times I tried this quest, I failed really fast.

4 Tips to make this quest a piece of cake:

1. If possible, do this quest with others.&nbsp They don't have to be in your party, just the fact that others are healing the dying peeps that you can't get too helps out a ton.

2. Hot key the triage bandages.

3. While healing, target who's going to die next so you can be their hero.

4. Stand in the middle of the 6 beds.&nbsp This way you don't have to move at all to do your healing.&nbsp Just target and heal.

If you do all 4 steps and you can't get this quest done, try beating your head with a nice sized rock .&nbsp This technique can help even the most challenged players :)
Rating: +17 [-] [+]
By Ashley on 04/07/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
Didn't realize that I only placed this comment on the Alliance part of the quest some time ago. It should apply here as well. Happy questing.

Bring 75 Mageweave Cloth and 70 Runecloth with you. You can train all of the bandages after completing the quest, and eliminate having to return to him in the future.

1) After you finish quest, the doctor will train you automatically. Make Mageweave bandages. Talk to doctor again at 240.
2) 241-260 make Heavy Mageweave bandages.
3) 261-290 make Runecloth bandages.
4) 291-300 make Heavy Runecloth bandages.

I have now used this for seven different characters. Works like a charm.
Last edited by Ashley on 04/07/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
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By Grimfrylocked on 08/11/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Some of the dieing soldiers make a reference to the Pink Floyd song Good Bye Cruel World thought it was kinda funny.
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By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
I've heard it would be required lv 40.

Well, I've done it as lv 36. So, you don't need to&nbsp be 40.

All you have to do is stand in the middle, grab the Triage Bandage recieved into one hotkey, and keep using it on the soliders that magically appear on the floor.

Quite easy quest, and a bit annoying cuz to get to that point I've failed couple of times.

By the way, just in case, Doctor Gregory Victor is on 73,37 - Hammerfal - Arathi Highlands inside the little "hospital".
Rating: +7 [-] [+]
By SockPuppet on 12/07/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Might be obvious to some, but you don't need to turn your character at all during this quest. You can actually select and bandage NPCs behind you. If you haven't already selected your next target before your current one finishes bandaging, you will probably fail the quest. If you do, this one is extremely easy.
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 01/25/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
I can't vouch for the alliance side, but one of the critically injured soldiers says: "Goodbye cruel world...&nbsp I'm leaving you today...&nbsp Goodbye... Goodbye... Goodbye."&nbsp A nod to the aptly named Pink Floyd song 'Goodbye Cruel World' from 'The Wall.'
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 07/10/2005 (Patch 1.5.1)
it appears that you have to be level 45 before you can get this quest.
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By Anonymous on 12/12/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
advice is the way to go..

half dozen attempts before I came back and reread this and followed his strategy

3900 at level 42
Rating: +5 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 12/20/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Very simple if you realize that the range on the bandages is like 5 yards, so you can just stand in the middle of the room and bandage everyone from just about one spot. Remember to put on name plates so you can always see which ones are badly injured, and remember to use the triage bandages :)
Rating: +5 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 07/27/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
The advice is to stand a bit behind Gustaf, approx 4-5 floor stones further (look at floor texture), so you're exacty between 5 beds. The 6th bed left-back in room has also wounded soldiers, but i can not keep 6th bed in camera view and 7th bed right-back in room is a bit visible in camera view (camera looks through the door of the room) is not used for wounded soldiers. Lucky. I ignore the 6th bed and focus only on 5 beds.

Press V to make bars visible. Indeed you see only full healths in bars. But now it's important that you see which is respawned first. Remember the respawm order. Injured lives a bit longer, but can also die.
(Not sure if you can see the bar of wounded guy on 6th bed.)

Hotkey the Triage bandages. It's helps very much and works faster.

Start: click first on Critically's. Then on Badly. And if you see new Badly respawned up again, let it be, click first on one Injured, then quickly on Badly. Because casting time costs time, that is why you must don't break your casts because you see critically when you're busy with Injured. And click then on Injured which starts speaking something. But also on longer-staying Injured's.

Quicktarget is possible. Target (click on the bar above the heads works too), press hotkey, and while your character casts it, click now on next target. Wait until the cast is completed, press now hotkey, target next... it's faster and no wasting pause time. Great.

Such advice is very useful for players who don't use mouse for walking/look around. Key-walking is more slower. That is why standing in the room with maximized camera (well, not really camerazoom on max, like more 2 steps from max zoom) does the work.

Some people thinks walk around the beds clockwise, to make respawn order easier, but it don't work. Because you see already Critically, you must break your clockwise method. You sure fail.
Moving around = fail
Stay in the middle with zoom out = win

Thanks for the advices above and good luck.
Rating: +4 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 05/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Amazing.

Assuming these people ACTUALLY die, I wonder how many deaths it takes for one person to pass their Triage exam.
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By Anonymous on 03/03/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
This is pretty easy, but i had some dificulties. U just need to stay at center of the room and put triage banadages in hotkey, click on patient and start bandaging. Should be easy enough!
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By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
A few things for the Alliance version of this quest.&nbsp First, you get this by taking a boat from the Wetlands, and make sure to take the boat on the left when you're looking at the docks from land, not the one on the right.&nbsp Once you get off the boat go straight ahead, inside the first building on the right (the one with the soldiers attacking dummies out front) is the doctor.&nbsp The bodies will appear all around him in the same room that he gives the quest.&nbsp When you're alliance this quest has NOTHING TO DO with the Aranathi Highlands.
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By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
For some reason it says "15 Patients Saved" in the quest log from the very&nbsp beginning, before you even start the quest, so just because it says that in your quest log doesn't mean that you've actually saved the 15 patients already (like in normal quests) it just means that you have the quest.&nbsp Look to the right and see if it says "(Failed)" at the top in the window which lists your 20 quests and if it does then you didn't actually save enough of them before they died.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 03/03/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
For strategy, the posts above say the important things - have the bandages on a hot key (only way I was able to do this), find a good spot in the middle of the room where you can reach most of the injured (I didn't find a spot that worked for all, but still managed), and mouse over to look for the critically or seriously injured (or the ones talking about how they're about to die) so you can target the next victim while the bandage is channeling. It's really hectic, and I failed it a half dozen times before getting bandages on the hotkey (and once after), but if you move quickly it will work. I was on a laptop without a mouse, so a bit harder to keep track of all the wounded without being able to zoom out.

If I can do it, anyone can. I'm old, my reflexes are slow, and I don't have a mouse. So don't panic about how fast you have to go you'll get it. Just enjoy the ease of a stand-in-one-room-clicking quest, and the stuff the dying say in the little chat bubbles.

Someone commented above about not having mageweave yet at level 35. I did this last night as a level 37 alliance char who hasn't encountered any mageweave yet either, but my horde char picked up some mageweave at level 30 or 31 from Dalaran mages at the internment camp just north of Hillsbrad.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 02/27/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Do:

1. hotkey the triage bandages. If you have a heal ability you use a lot, put it there for the time being.
2. zoom to third person so you can see all victims.
3. preselect the next dying victim before the bandaging is done on the current
4. look for a pattern: undead are always critical, trolls always badly injured, and orcs always injured.
5. stand between the two rows about level with the middle of the first two guys. They'll all be within triage range from here.

Do not:
1. let a dying patient throw you off. Expect to lose 2-3.
2. use ctrl+v to see health. They all have full health till the moment they die. It just clutters up your screen so you're better off looking for that pattern.
Rating: +1 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 02/16/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
This quest gets a lot easier if you bind the triage bandage to a hotkey so you can leave the mouse free to click on patients. Once I figured that out, I completed this with ease.
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By Anonymous on 06/14/2005 (Patch 1.5.1)
Is there a minimum level for this quest? If so, what is it?

Or are there quests u have to do before it? Which ones?
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By Anonymous on 10/20/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)
Just got it at level 35...it was madly easy. None even died...i only got injured and badly injured patients. no critical or anything :D
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By Anonymous on 04/15/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)
I tried this 3 times and didn't even come close. Then I read how you should just stand in one spot (in the middle of the six beds) and have the next patient targeted while the current one is still bandaging (you can turn in a circle without interrupting as long as you stay in one spot). This way there is ZERO wasted time between patients and I finished it easily. Oh, and I did badly injured as soon as they popped up, then went back to injured, and just ignored critically injured completely.
Rating: +1 [-] [+]
By Anonymous on 06/27/2005 (Patch 1.5.1)
Do you have to be Level 45 Befor you get quest?

level 37 hunter NE Uldum
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By Anonymous on 09/06/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)
uhm it took me 3 times to realise I shouldn't use my own silk bandage :P
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By Anonymous on 10/16/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
how come i couldn't get the quest? i'm lvl 43 and 1st aid 225.
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By Anonymous on 11/27/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
where can i complete it man.... cant find the guy who takes this quest.... in quest log it shows me that the quest is completed... but cant find the guy.,...
help please
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By Anonymous on 01/24/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
Its hard at first but just remember to cure the critically injured first, then Badly Injured and then just injured :P
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By Anonymous on 01/03/2007 (Patch 2.0.1)
LOL from the other postage the quest seems F U N :-)
I can't wait to be lvl 35 so i can get it now i'm lvl 26 and FA skill is 157 :) lol
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By Anonymous on 06/22/2005 (Patch 1.5.1)
It makes it less complex to just party up... find one (or better) or two other people who want to do this quest, party up, do the quest as a group... it was very fast for us.
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By Anonymous on 02/28/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
I am a hunter at level 37. Upgrade my skill in Hammerfall to 225 and i did get the quest!
It wasn't hard.
Have a good sight over all the six towels stay close en do not move by healing a
patient. During healing pre select an other patient and so on.
(see video at http://stage6.divx.com/members/116187/videos/1012825)
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By Anonymous on 05/01/2005 (Patch 1.4.0)
This is how I did it at 41 (3900 exp). First I practised on the patients to find the right spot in the centre. Then I have a mouse button (4th in my case) bound to action key 4, where I put in the triage. Once it's started, I simply use the mouse to turn around and scan the room for patients. Whenever I spot a patient I need to heal first, I use the right-click to target the patient and press the mouse button (hotkey if you prefer). If it's out of range, just press the W key to move forward a bit, assuming you're facing the patient anyway. While the bandage is being done, scan the room meanwhile for another patient and target it once the next bandage is ready.

I just did it on instinct, trying to catch all with my eyes. I may have missed some but it is most important to act quickly, so there is no room for hesitation.
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By Anonymous on 05/18/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)
u can get another person to help u :)
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By Anonymous on 02/23/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
I just did this last night. Took me several times and finally found an easy way to do it. I scrolled my camera out and stood in between the center mats. From this position you can hit all six of the patients without moving. I also invited a friend right before I started because we planned on grouping after I finished and they completed the quest without having to do any work. Not sure if it was intended that way or not. Oh yeah, it is faster if you put the bandages in an open slot so you can just keep hitting a hotkey.
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By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)
This quest is now given at level 35! Gladly just finished it and thought I would share..