Table 9 Factors identified as definitive components of major trauma
Reductive Coding | Table 4 Variables | Table 5 Variables | Table 7 Variables |
|---|---|---|---|
Potentially Life Threatening | Deranged physiology | Life threatening injuries | Life threatening injuries |
Suspected abdominal injury with haemodynamic instability | Physiological changes | ||
Injury causing reduced consciousness | |||
Need for blood products | Major blood loss | ||
Need for ventilatory support | |||
Potential need for ICU | Specialist input required | ||
Potentially Life Changing | Need for surgical intervention | Limb threatening injuries | Life changing injuries |
Significant injury/polytrauma | |||
Prolonged treatment/rehabilitation | |||
Other | Actual injuries | ||
Clinical experience/skills/perception | |||
MOI (high and low energy) | |||
Age (paediatrics and older adults | |||
Frailty | |||
Interventions (TXA, Pelvic binding) | |||
ISS/scoring/triage |