title: Validating scores: a good business for a trauma register.
abstract: Acute hemorrhage after life-threatening injury is still one of the main killers after trauma. The article by Brockamp and colleagues presents a good overview of recent scores for estimation of blood loss and transfusion requirement.
authors.forename: Marcus R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Raum
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications*