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MESS
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MESS
Mangled Extremity Severity Score. A scoring system used to evaluate the need to amputate an extremity; a MESS of 7 indicates a need to amputate

Modifying factors Loss of posterior tibial nerve causes trophic ulceration; ischemia > 6 hours doubles the MESS

MESS
Mangled Extremity Severity Score Traumatology A scoring system used to evaluate the need for amputation in an extremity; a MESS of ≥ 7 indicates a need to amputate Altering factors Loss of posterior tibial nerve causes trophic ulceration, ischemia > 6 hrs doubles score. See Amputation.
MESS scoring points
Skeletal & soft tissue injury
• Low energy–stabs, simple Fx, civilian gun shot wounds
•  Medium energy–open or multiple Fx, dislocation
•  High-energy–close range shotgun, military gunshot wounds, crush injury
•  Very high energy–as in line just above, with gross contamination or tissue avulsion
Limb ischemia
•  Pulse reduced, normal perfusion
•  Pulseless, paresthesia, ↓ capillary filling
•  Cool, paralyzed, numb
Shock
•  Systolic BP ≥ 90 mm Hg
•  Transient hypotension
•  Permanent hypotension
Age
•  < Age 30
•  Age 30–50
•  > Age 50


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