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Journal of The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine 2005;16(1): 104-113. |
| The Validation of the Admission Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Score as the Trauma Score |
| Sin Youl Park, Kang Suk Seo, Hyun Wook Ryoo, Kyung Woo Lee, Jeong Ho Lee, Jun Seok Seo, Hui Jung Lee, Jeong Bae Park, Jae Myung Chung |
| Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. kssuh@knu.ac.kr |
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| ABSTRACT |
PURPOSE:
Multiple trauma is one of the major causes of deaths and physical disabilities of the young. Thus, a trauma scoring system which is easy, fast, and accurate is the most important factor for reducing the mortality due to multiple trauma. As studies have shows the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) score is useful in estimating the severity of and determining the prognosis of the disease, so we investigated the usefulness of the SIRS score as a trauma score.
METHODS:
This study was a retrospective analysis of data collected from January 2002 to December 2002. Three hundred sixity nine trauma patients who were admitted to the emergency department were included. Patients who were transferred from other hospitals, children under the age of 15 years and patients transferred to other hospitals for ICU care and emergency operations were excluded. The SIRS score was defined according to the criteria of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (ACCP/SCCM). Patients were grouped by using the SIRS score(0 to 4) calculated at admission.
RESULTS:
Among the 369 trauma patients, 174 patients (47.2%) had a SIRS score > or =2 at admission, and 30 of the 369 patients expired. The admission SIRS score was significantly correlated with the injury severity score (ISS). The mortality rate and the length of stay (LOS) significantly increased as the admission SIRS score increased. Analysis of the variance, adjusting for age and ISS, should that are SIRS score> or =2 was a significant predictor of mortality and LOS.
CONCLUSION:
The admission SIRS score has been shown to be useful in estimating the severity of and the prognosis for a trauma. If we apply it to the trauma patients who visit ED, it should provide a more useful means for determining the severity of the trauma and the prognosis for the patient. |
| Key words:
Injury severity score, Multiple trauma, Mortality |
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