Early identification of bleeding in trauma patients: external validation of traumatic bleeding scores in the Swiss Trauma Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early identification of bleeding at the scene of an injury is important for triage and timely treatment of injured patients and transport to an appropriate facility. The aim of the study is to compare the performance of different bleeding scores.

Methods

We examined data from the Swiss Trauma Registry for the years 2015-2019. The Swiss Trauma Registry includes patients with major trauma (injury severity score (ISS) ≥ 16 and/or abbreviated injury scale (AIS) head ≥ 3) admitted to any level-one trauma centre in Switzerland. We evaluated ABC, TASH and Shock index (SI) scores, used to predict massive transfusion (MT) and the BATT score and used to predict death from bleeding. We evaluated the scores when used prehospital and in-hospital in terms of discrimination (C-S

SUBMITTER: Costa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9520811 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature