An improved modified early warning score that incorporates the abdomen score for identifying multiple traumatic injury severity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid identification of trauma severity is essential for the timely triage of multiple trauma patients. Tools such as the modified early warning score (MEWS) are used for determining injury severity. Although the conventional MEWS is a good predictor of mortality, its performance assessing injury severity is moderate. This study hypothesized that adding an injury site severity-related score (e.g., abdomen score) may enhance the capability of the MEWS for identifying severe trauma.

Method

To validate the hypothesis, we propose an improved modified early warning score called MEWS-A, which incorporates an injury site-specific severity-related abdomen score to MEWS. The utility of MEWS and MEWS-A were retrospectively evaluated and compared for identifying trauma sever

SUBMITTER: Jiang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7597630 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature