Injury Severity Scale

Emergency medicine A numerical scoring system for calculating the probability of survival, and seriousness of wounds or trauma sustained; an ISS of > 20 implies a poor prognosis. See Abbreviated Injury Scale, Revised Trauma Score, Trauma Score.

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The objective of this study was to determine the facial injury severity scale scores amongst motorcyclists and the level of driving safety standards being practiced.

Key Words: Facial Injury Severity Scale, Maxillofacial trauma, Safety standards.

The severity of their facial injuries were scored according to the facial injury severity scale (FISS)12 whose details are given in Table 1.

FACIAL INJURY SEVERITY SCALE SCORES AMONGST MOTORCYCLISTS: ARE THEY AS SAFE AS THEY SHOULD BE?

Renal trauma was classified based on the American association for the surgery of trauma (AAST) kidney injury severity scale (Table 1).

Table 1 the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) kidney injury severity scale (11).

Management of renal trauma a retrospective study--our experience

The Injury Severity Scale (ISS) total score is calculated by summing the squares of the highest AIS code in the three body regions with the most severe injury.

Preschool children with head injury: comparing injury severity measures and clinical care

The AIS is an anatomically based injury severity scale that scores each injury on a scale from 1 (relatively minor) to 6 (untreatable) within six body regions (head, face, chest, abdomen, limbs, and external).

Combat blast injuries: injury severity and posttraumatic stress disorder interaction on career outcomes in male servicemembers

The patients' injury severity was coded using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), the most widely used anatomic injury severity scale in the world (Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine 1990).

Do AR-DRGs adequately describe the trauma patient episode in New South Wales, Australia?

The modified injury severity scale in pediatric multiple trauma patients," J Pediatr Surg.

Principles of the organization, diagnostics and treatment of children with associated trauma

3) Injury severity scale for the ureter is given in the table 5.

3 avulsion Table 5: Injury severity scale for the ureter * (14) Grade Description 1.

Outcome of ureteric injuries in abdominal and vaginal hysterectomies

1,2) Injury severity scales of children who are admitted to the hospital with dog bite injuries range from 1 to 25 with an average score of 4.