Trauma Scoring

ABC of major trauma. Scoring systems for trauma.

Previous articles in this series have emphasised the importance of an aggressive, integrated, interdisciplinary approach to trauma care by an experienced team that has immediate access to operating theatres and intensive care facilities. Many of the recommendations can be expected to incur appreciable additional costs. Will this money be well spent? Which changes are most effective in improving...

Paediatric Injury Scoring and Trauma Registry

Introduction Injury scoring systems are designed to accurately assess injury severity, appropriately triage the injured, and develop and refine trauma patient care.1 Trauma scores quantify the severity and extent of injury, aid with the prediction of survival and subsequent morbidity,2 and allow health care providers to communicate in common terms. One disadvantage of injury scoring systems is ...

Collective Reviews Trauma Scoring Systems: A Review

Since West and colleagues showed clear benefits in outcomes for patients treated at specialized trauma centers in the 1970s, patients could no longer be simply transported to the nearest hospital. Scoring systems were initially created for the purposes of field triage. Of necessity these systems must be straightforward and user-friendly for prehospital personnel. Scoring systems should accurate...

Scoring systems of severity in patients with multiple trauma.

Trauma is a major cause of morbidity and mortality; hence severity scales are important adjuncts to trauma care in order to characterize the nature and extent of injury. Trauma scoring models can assist with triage and help in evaluation and prediction of prognosis in order to organise and improve trauma systems. Given the wide variety of scoring instruments available to assess the injured pati...

History and current status of trauma scoring systems.