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Revised Trauma Score

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Revised Trauma Score,
a system of combining cardiopulmonary assessment with the Glasgow Coma Score in estimating the degree of injury and the prognosis in a trauma patient. The cardiopulmonary factors included are respiratory rate and systolic blood pressure.

Revised Trauma Score
Emergency medicine A triage tool consisting of a numeric scoring system for calculating the probability of surviving an accident. See Injury Severity Score, Triage.


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Injury severity: The TRISS method The TRISS method gives a physiological and anatomical index of injury severity based on the Injury Severity Score (ISS), the Revised Trauma Score (RTS), the patient's age and whether the injury was blunt or penetrating (Woodford, 2001:5).
 
 
 
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