Injury Severity Scale

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.
FACIAL INJURY SEVERITY SCALE SCORES AMONGST MOTORCYCLISTS: ARE THEY AS SAFE AS THEY SHOULD BE?
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Table 1 the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) kidney injury severity scale (11).
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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 average ISS (Injury Severity Scale; the higher the score the more severe the injury) was 3.5 (range: 1-10).
Dog bites of the face, head and neck in children
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., Vol.15, pp.719-26.
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.
Outcome of ureteric injuries in abdominal and vaginal hysterectomies

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