Relation between Injury Severity Score and Outcome of Polytrauma Patients,
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Relation between Injury Severity Score and Outcome of Polytrauma Patients, AHMED A. MOHAMED, MONIRA T. ISMAIL, SAMEH S. AZIZ and AHMED M. EL-LABAN
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of Score Injury Severity (ISS) in the outcome of polytrauma patients.
Patients and Methods: The current study was carried out at Emergency Department of Suez Canal University Hospital during year 2013. 210 patients of polytrauma were included in our study. All patients were classified according to ISS into mild, moderate, severe and profound.
Results: Among 210 patients underwent Score Injury Severity (ISS) evaluation in our study, 30 patients were classified as profound, 52 patients were classified as severe, 52 patients were classified as moderate and 76 patients were classified as mild. All profound cases (30), all severe cases (52) and (13) moderate cases were admitted where as there no mild cases were admitted. All deaths were among profound cases.
Conclusion: Score Injury Severity (ISS) is a good prog-nostic tool for polytrauma patients, as it decreases, the prog-nosis of the cases improve and vice versa.