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Comparing Trauma Severity Scores Injury Severity Score "ISS", Rapid Emergency Medicine Score "REMS" and Kampala Trauma Score "KTS"

NCT05544773 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2022-09-16

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Summary

Trauma is defined as a physical injury from an external source of sudden onset and severity, which require immediate medical attention.Despite improvements in trauma systems worldwide, trauma continues to be one of the leading causes of death and disability in all age groups, especially the young and middle age group.

For studying the outcomes of trauma, accurate and reliable methodological tools are required for appropriate scoring of severity and outcome prediction . Trauma scores were designed to facilitate the triage of patients in the ER (emergency room), and identify patients with Polytrauma with low chances of survival. Those scores were meant to organize and improve the quality of trauma care systems, and to assess resources allocation.3 12 In 1969, Researchers developed the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) to grade the severity of individual injuries. Attempting to summarize injury severity in patients with multiple traumas with a single number is almost difficult; therefore, multiple alternative scoring systems were proposed afterwards, each with its own problems and limitations.

More than 50 scoring systems have been published for the classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings. There are three main groups of trauma scores: (a) Anatomical, (b) Physiological, (c) Combined scores. Anatomical scores describe all the injuries recorded by clinical examination, imaging, surgery or autopsy and measure lesion severity. Physiological scores describe changes happened due to the trauma, and translated by changes in vital signs and consciousness. Scores that include both anatomical and physiological criteria (mixed scores) are more useful for patient prognosis

Conditions

  • Polytrauma

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assiut University

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-01
Primary Completion
2025-03-01
Completion
2025-10-01

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