Chest Trauma Caused by Traffic Accident: The Application of Injury Severity Score
- VernacularTitle:交通事故致胸外伤348例(创伤严重度评分的应用)
- Author:
Yingkang SHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Chest trauma Traffic accident Injury severity score
- From:
Chinese Journal of Trauma
1991;0(02):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
From January 1954 to December 1991, 348 cases of chest trauma caused by traffic accident were treated, with multiple injury in 219 cases. There were 8 deaths and the mortality was 2.6%. Injury Severity Score (ISS) and a lethal dose for 50% of the patients (LD_(50)) were used to analyse the correlation between total injury severity and mortality. The clinical characteristics and some problems in diagnosis and treatment of these patients were discussed. The authors stressed that (1) to shorten the time elapsed from admission to the efficient freatment started was the key of decreasing mortality, (2) ISS and LD_(50) were useful tools in retrospective study of the correlation between injury severity and mortality, But further researches were needed.
