THE NEW INJURY SEVERITY SCORE AS PREDICTOR OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN ADULT TRAUMA PATIENTS

Dr Shalin Lyall; Dr Carunya Mannan

Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017

THE NEW INJURY SEVERITY SCORE AS PREDICTOR OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN ADULT TRAUMA PATIENTS

Dr Shalin Lyall, Dr Carunya Mannan

Abstract :

Trauma in India is a significant social and financial burden which requires prioritized attention. The death rate ought to be reduced with better organized systems of trauma care. The need for a scoring system to assess the severity of injuries in poly–trauma patients continues to be a challenge. An accurate scoring system is hence required to predict the morbidity and survival rate in a triage setting. The Injury Severity Score (ISS) does not take into scoring the multiple injuries in the same body region, whereas a New Injury Severity Score (NISS) may prove to provide a more accurate measure of trauma severity by considering the patient�s three greatest injuries irrespective of the body region. This study proves that NISS score often increases the apparent injury severity and is a better tool for prediction of short–term mortality.