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Table 7 Revised Trauma Score (RTS) categories with clinical notes.

From: The Utstein template for uniform reporting of data following major trauma: A joint revision by SCANTEM, TARN, DGU-TR and RITG

RTS coded values

Respiratory Rate

Systolic Blood Pressure

Glasgow Coma Scale score

4

10–29 ("normal")

>89 ("good radial pulse")

13–15

3

>29 ("fast")

76–89 ("weak radial pulse")

9–12

2

6–9 ("slow")

50–75 ("femoral pulse")

6–8

1

1–5 ("gasp")

1–49 ("only carotid pulse")

4–5

0

0 ("no respiration")

0 ("no carotid pulse")

3

  1. This table is based on (but not identical to) the RTS table in reference [22]. The parentheses represent clinical notes that were added by the expert panel.