Injury Severity Score
Injury Severity Score (ISS) is a medical scoring system used to assess the overall severity of a patient's injuries. It is commonly used in emergency medicine and trauma surgery.
Pronunciation
In English, Injury Severity Score is pronounced as /ˈɪndʒəri sɪˈvɛrɪti skɔːr/.
Etymology
The term "Injury Severity Score" is derived from the English words "injury", "severity", and "score". The term was first used in medical literature in the 1970s.
Definition
The Injury Severity Score is an established medical score that assesses the severity of an individual's injuries. It is calculated based on the severity of injuries in six body regions: head or neck, face, chest, abdomen or pelvic contents, extremities or pelvic girdle, and external. Each injury is assigned a score from 1 (minor) to 6 (unsurvivable), and the three most severe injuries are squared and summed to give the ISS.
Related Terms
- Abbreviated Injury Scale: A scoring system used to classify individual injuries by body region according to their severity on a 6 point ordinal scale.
- Trauma Score: A system used by emergency medical services to classify the severity of a trauma patient's condition.
- Glasgow Coma Scale: A neurological scale that aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person for initial as well as subsequent assessment.
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