title: Scoring systems of severity in patients with multiple trauma.
abstract: 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 patient, it is imperative that the choice of the severity score accurately match the application. Even though trauma scores are not the key elements of trauma treatment, they are however, an essential part of improvement in triage decisions and in identifying patients with unexpected outcomes. This article provides the reader with a compendium of trauma severity scales along with their predicted death rate calculation, which can be adopted in order to improve decision making, trauma care, research and in comparative analyses in quality assessment.
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India. Electronic address: amy_rap@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Amy Grace
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Rapsang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Devajit Chowlek
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Shyam
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014218:Triage
keywords: Abbreviated injury scale; Escala abreviada de lesiones; Escala de coma Glasgow; Glasgow coma Score; Injury severity score; Paediatric trauma score; Revised trauma score; Sistemas de valoración de traumatismo; Trauma score-injury severity score; Trauma scoring systems; Valoración de gravedad de lesiones; Valoración de traumatismo pediátrico; Valoración de traumatismos-valoración de gravedad de lesiones; Valoración revisada de traumatismos