objective: to determine the predictive and diagnostic value of thorax trauma severity score (ttss) in a population of thoracic trauma patients admitted to a secondary level trauma center. methods : a retrospective analysis of patients admitted over a period of two years with idc-9 codes related to thoracic trauma was undertaken. the association of ttss with complications and mortality was evalu...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to evaluate and to validate the Thorax Trauma Severity Score (TTSS) for mortality. METHODS By database analysis 712 patients with an injury to the chest admitted to the Universal Medical Center Utrecht between 2000 and 2004 were studied. All patients with a score of ≥1 on the AISthorax were included in the study. The patients' file was evaluated for...

Several scoring systems are commonly used to evaluate severity in patients with traumatic injuries. However, there is no generally accepted standard scoring system to assess the severity of thoracic trauma, specifically in patients who have sustained severe injuries. The present study aimed to evaluate the validity of the trauma and injury severity score (TRISS) and the thorax trauma severity s...

introduction: more than 50 scoring systems have been published for classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings, so far. the present study aimed to compare the ability of trauma injury severity score (triss) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache) iii in predicting mortality of intensive care unit (icu) admitted trauma patients....

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to define the epidemiologic properties and correlation of physiological and anatomical risk factors with the mortality rate among patients with thorax trauma and to ensure early prediction of severe trauma. METHODS Files of 371 cases were retrospectively examined. Their initial state in the emergency department was analyzed in terms of mortality develo...

objective: to record and classify mechanisms of injury and injury severity score (iss) in trauma patients admitted to the largest trauma center in southern iran. methods: this was a prospective cross-sectional study including all the patients who were admitted to nemazee hospital from 2009 to 2010. we recorded the trauma injury information of 1217 patients who were admitted to of emergency room...

objective: thoracic trauma may be a life-threatening condition. flail chest is a severe chest injury with high mortality rates. surgery is not frequently performed and, in literature, data are controversial. the authors report their experience in the treatment of flail chest by an extracortical internal-external stabilization technique with kirshner’s wires (k-wires). methods: from 2010 to 2015...

conclusions this new suggested scale shows a better value to predict patients’ length of hospital stay compared to iss and niss. however, future studies with larger sample sizes and more confounding factors such as prehospital procedures, intubation and other procedures during admission, should be designed to examine these scoring systems and confirm the results of our study. background trauma ...