Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) in the trauma population: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) is an attenuated version of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score and has utility in predicting mortality in non-surgical patients, but has yet to be tested among the trauma population. The objective was to evaluate REMS as a risk stratification tool for predicting in-hospital mortality in traumatically injured patients and to compare REMS accuracy in predicting mortality to existing trauma scores, including the Revised Trauma Score (RTS), Injury Severity Score (ISS) and Shock Index (SI).

Design and setting

Retrospective chart review of the trauma registry from an urban academic American College of Surgeons (ACS) level 1 trauma centre.

Participants

3680 patients with trauma aged 14 years an

SUBMITTER: Imhoff BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4024603 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature