Inclusion criteria | NISS > 15. |
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Exclusion criteria | First hospital admission more than 24 hours after injury. |
 | Patients declared dead before hospital arrival, or with no signs of life on hospital arrival and no response to hospital resuscitation. |
 | Asphyxia. |
 | Drowning. |
 | Burn patients should be excluded if the burn represents the predominant injury, or if the patient is treated in a specialised burn unit. |