I am at present revamping the Sussex Patient Report Form. We currently use a
trauma scoring system which has Respiratory Rate, Systolic BP and GCS as
components of the total score - of 12.
I noticed in PHTLS that it has a total trauma score of 16 as it includes:
capillary refil
normal 2
delayed 1
None nil
Respiratory expansion
normal 1
retractive nil
I need to know... should we be including this in trauma scoring or is the
data out of date. I appreciate people may have a 'point of view' on the
subject, but I really do need facts based upon evidence based medicine with
references to support statements.
Mike Bjarkoy
Paramedic
Sussex
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