Mechanism of injury and special considerations as predictive of serious injury: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's field triage guidelines (FTG) are routinely used by emergency medical services personnel for triaging injured patients. The most recent (2011) FTG contains physiologic, anatomic, mechanism, and special consideration steps. Our objective was to systematically review the criteria in the mechanism and special consideration steps that might be predictive of serious injury or need for a trauma center.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of the predictive utility of mechanism and special consideration criteria for predicting serious injury. A research librarian searched in Ovid Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane databases for studies published between January 2011 and February 2021. Eligible studies were identified us

SUBMITTER: Lupton JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545392 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature