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Abbreviated Injury Scale and Injury Severity Score
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care · 1985 · Vol. 25(1) · pp. 60–64
L Greenspan✉(Toronto General Hospital)BARRY A. McLELLAN(Toronto General Hospital)H. B. W. Greig(Toronto General Hospital)
Abstract
The Abbreviated Injury Scale and the Injury Severity Score are important tools for grading the severity of injury to trauma patients. The Trauma Chart provided is a simple and concise guide for scoring and recording this useful information. The chart is useful in both a large wall-mounted form and in the reduced two-page form included in this article.
Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesInjury Epidemiology and PreventionAbdominal Trauma and InjuriesAbbreviated Injury ScaleChartInjury Severity ScoreGrading scaleGrading (engineering)MedicineScale (ratio)Poison controlInjury preventionMedical emergency
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Accidents, TrafficAdolescentAdultAgedHumansMiddle AgedWounds and Injuries
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