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abbreviated injury scale

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Abbreviated Injury Scale

A scoring system for rating the survivability of a single traumatic injury, which is based on physical examination, operative reports, and autopsy results. First reported in 1969 and most recently revised in 2008, AIS Codes range from 0 (not injured) to 6 (maximum, often lethal); an AIS Code of 9 is used when the severity of the injury is not specified.
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abbreviated injury scale

Emergency medicine A numerical scoring system for rating organ damage sustained during trauma, which is based on physical examination, operative reports, and autopsy results. See Injury Severity Score.
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(20.) Abbreviated Injury Scale [NSW Institute of Trauma and Injury Management].
A Comparative Analysis of the Injury Patterns and In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Belted and Unbelted Motor-Vehicle Occupants--Puerto Rico, January 2000 to December 2014
Abbreviated Injury Scale is one the most commonly used and well-defined trauma scoring systems that relies on objective findings according to the anatomic site of the injury (compartment) (3, 8).
Comparison of the non-mortal gunshot and handmade explosive blast traumas during a low-intensity conflict on urban terrain
Using Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) codes to classify computed tomography (CT) features in the Marshall System.
Impact of Alcohol Screening for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Being Admitted to Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit
AIS: Abbreviated Injury Scale, ED: emergency department, ETI: endotracheal intubation, GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale Score, ISS: Injury Severity Score, Ps: probability of survival, RTS: Revised Trauma Score, SD: standard deviation.
Expert-Performed Endotracheal Intubation-Related Complications in Trauma Patients: Incidence, Possible Risk Factors, and Outcomes in the Prehospital Setting and Emergency Department
Development and validation of a complementary map to enhance the existing 1998 to 2008 Abbreviated Injury Scale map.
THE VALUE OF INJURY SEVERITY SCORE AND ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAUMATIC INJURIES OF PARENCHYMAL ABDOMINAL ORGANS
Bodily injury severity was measured using the Injury Severity Score (ISS) derived from the Abbreviated Injury Scale [47].
Utility of the Validity-10 scale across the recovery trajectory following traumatic brain injury
The data that we could gather was not sufficient to classify injuries and their severity according to standardised scoring systems such as the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and the Injury Severity Score (ISS), as used by other studies evaluating patterns of blast injuries.28
Pattern of external injuries sustained during bomb blast attacks in Karachi, Pakistan from 2000 to 2007
To bridge the knowledge gap, the investigators identified all TBI patients older than 14 years with a Head Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score >3 from 2008 to 2012 in the NOTS database and matched them to the Ohio death index and the regional TBI rehabilitation database.
Regionalized trauma care trims 30-day mortality
The lower extremities represent the region most commonly injured, while the head injuries represent the main source of the fatalities, accounting 30% of the overall AIS 2+ (Abbreviated Injury Scale) [17][18].
The influence of the frontal profile design of a vehicle upon the pedestrian safety at low velocity
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