PETL are a newly patented technology available for the first time to nonmilitary personnel. Developed in conjunction with United States Special Operating Forces the PETL are a new triage device and method for use that offers a faster, easier, and more effective way of marking and prioritizing individuals for medical care at the scenes of various emergency situations such as natural disasters, plane crashes, train and automobile accidents and other mass-casualty incidents.
PETL are easy to place and provide accurate information relating to a victims degree of injury. This improved triage tagging system is easy to see in the dark, underwater and in buried situations, where traditional tags have been proven as inadequate. Complete darkness and underwater settings prevent the cards from being read and from being clearly seen from a distance. Further, triage tagging is often performed under the most harried of conditions as well as increasing and heightened when smoke, dust and poor weather conditions obscure the ability to determine the triage status and to manually corresponding fill out a comment card too.
The PETL provide illuminated signals that visually provide the triage status of an injured person/animal at a distance and in low visibility settings such as in the rain, fog, snow, in areas of dense undergrowth and multiple other scenarios. PETL are Combat proven and have been used in actual mass casualty situations by U.S. Air Force medics.
In addition to being used as triage tags, PETL can take the place of traditional emergency light sources such as chemical light sticks while offering numerous benefits over and above what the chemical light sticks offer.
• Night time/adverse condition initial triage tagging
•Team member marking
•Cookie Trail marking
•IFF
•TCCC
•Covert vehicle tracking
•Cleared room indicator
•Training
•Range ID
•Any signaling purpose
•SAR dog ID
•Your imagination is the limit
Features Include:
- Emergency off feature (No need to scroll through all the colors to turn them off) – Hold switch down for 3 seconds and the PETL turns off.
- Customized software available for special requests. For example some MP’s suggested activating the red and blue LED’s to indicate that person is an MP. Ask for a particular sequence or color combination and we will work on it.
- Locking feature activated on versions V3, V 4 & V5L. This feature is included for two reasons, first to prevent triaged patients from easily changing their condition. Second is to make sure the light does not turn off or change selection inadvertently.
- Locking Not activated on Infrared versions V1 and V2. Version 5NL also does not lock.
- Last selection memory in case of power loss for any reason. The light turns back on to the last selection before power was lost.
- PETL combine four colors into one device (Red/Yellow/Green/Blue) or (IR/ Red/Green/Blue).
- Version V6.8IR, IR selections activate with a ~3 hour auto off timer. This helps prevent battery drain in case the lights are activated or left on inadvertently.
Benefits are:
- Reduce patient collection times by over 30%.
- Reduce patient collection errors from 4 errors down to one error.
- Reduce your chemical light stick budget by over 90%.
- Reduce the weight and volume carried by the responder for this type of equipment by over 60%.
- Improve situational awareness of patients, team members, etc…especially at night or under adverse conditions.
- Improve your Return on Investment – chemical lights are a $1+, you never get back once it is cracked. PETL are reusable and can be turned off. Once you replace the battery you reduce your per hour costs to as little as $0.01/hour.
- Reduce storage costs, logistics costs and replacement costs associated with chemical lights.
We recommend the following PETL versions for first responder activities. Select which version best fits your department’s requirements:
- Version 1 – Constant IR, flashing IR, constant red, constant green, constant blue, off.
- Version 2 – Constant IR, flashing IR, constant red, flashing red, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue, off.
- Version V3 – constant red, constant yellow, constant green, constant blue.
- Version V4 – constant red, flashing red, constant yellow, flashing yellow, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue.
- Version V5L – constant red, flashing red, constant yellow, flashing yellow, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue, all colors rotate slow, all colors rotate medium, all colors rotate fast. The “L” indicates the light will lock in the selection.
- Version 5NL – constant red, flashing red, constant yellow, flashing yellow, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue, all colors rotate slow, all colors rotate medium, all colors rotate fast. The “NL” indicates the light will NOT lock in the selection.
- Version 6.8A – Has fifteen programmed modes. See Military page for mode descriptions.
- Version 6.8IR – Has fifteen programmed modes, including strictly IR modes and light grenade distractionary mode. Version 6.8IR, infrared selections come programmed with an automatic ~3 hour auto off feature.
Used Flashlight Top and Magnetic base for Map Reading Lights.- Same configuration mounted on top of HUMVEE for IFF (Blinking IR) identification.
- Trained using the traditional light as a Triage Use.
- Used the Rapidly Flashing Multicolor as Casualty Collection Point Marking.
- Mounted with 550 on the back of a few Soldiers to use as IFF Markings for personnel – strobes tend to be way to intense for dismounted personnel and washes out NVG’s. These seemed to work much better and didn’t wash out the NVG’s.
- The Light can be used as a BUZZ Saw signal easily by tying it to a longer piece of 550 Cord.
- Put a few magnetic bases on the version 1’s and used them for IFF for the aircraft we been using overhead.
Features Include:
- Emergency off feature (No need to scroll through all the colors to turn them off) – Hold switch down for 3 seconds and the PETL turns off.
- Customized software available for special requests. For example some MP’s suggested activating the red and blue LED’s to indicate that person is an MP. Ask for a particular sequence or color combination and we will work on it.
- Locking feature activated on versions V3, V4 & V5L. This feature is included for two reasons, first to prevent triaged patients from easily changing their condition. Second is to make sure the light does not turn off or change selection inadvertently.
- Locking NOT activated on Infrared versions V1 and V2. Version 5NL also does NOT lock.
- Last selection memory in case of power loss for any reason. The light turns back on to the last selection before power was lost.
- PETL combine four colors into one device (Red/Yellow/Green/Blue) or (IR/ Red/Green/Blue).
- Version V6.8IR, IR selections activate with a ~3 hour auto off timer. This helps prevent battery drain in case the lights are activated or left on inadvertently.
Benefits are:
- Reduce patient collection times by over 30%.
- Reduce patient collection errors from 4 errors down to one error.
- Reduce your chemical light stick budget by over 90%.
- Reduce the weight and volume carried by the soldier for this type of equipment by over 60%.
- Improve situational awareness of patients, team members, UAV’s, etc…especially at night or under adverse conditions.
- Improve your Return on Investment – chemical lights are a $1+, you never get back once it is cracked- PETL are reusable and can be turned off. Once you replace the battery you reduce your per hour costs to as little as $0.01/hour vs. $1.00+ for each chemical light.
- Reduce storage costs, logistics costs and replacement costs for utilizing chemical lights. One small battery vs. 70+ chemical lights.
Suggested versions for military applications, you choose which version best fits your requirements:
- Keep it Simple versions 1 through 5, one light one way it works.
- Version V1 – constant IR, flashing IR, constant red, constant green, constant blue, off.
- Version V2 – constant IR, flashing IR, constant red, flashing red, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue, off.
- Version V3 – constant red, constant yellow, constant green, constant blue.
- Version V4 – constant red, flashing red, constant yellow, flashing yellow, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue.
- Version V5L – constant red, flashing red, constant yellow, flashing yellow, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue, all colors rotate slow, all colors rotate medium, all colors rotate fast. The “L” indicates the light will lock in the selection.
- Version 5NL – constant red, flashing red, constant yellow, flashing yellow, constant green, flashing green, constant blue, flashing blue, all colors rotate slow, all colors rotate medium, all colors rotate fast. The “NL” indicates the light will NOT lock in the selection.
New multi-program versions, you set it to your preferred mode and can change it if desired:
- Version V6.8A – Fifteen programmed modes.
- Version V6.8IR – Fifteen programmed modes, including strictly IR modes and light grenade/distraction mode. Version 6.8IR, infrared selections come programmed with an automatic ~3 hour auto off feature to avoid inadvertent battery drain.
