Role of Injury Severity Score in prediction of morbidity, survival and mortality following Road Traffic Accidents

Abstract

Background: Patients with trauma who land in the emergency room are a crucial. They need emergency care at priority Evaluation of such patients then becomes necessary and crucial in terms of their morbidity, Survival and mortality. From relatives of patients to caregivers, are interested in knowing the prognosis of such patients. And then there becomes a need to develop a method which has predictive value to tell the prognosis. The Injury Severity Score (ISS) is an established medical score to assess trauma severity.8
It correlates with mortality, morbidity, and hospitalization time after trauma. It is used to define the term major trauma. A major trauma (or polytrauma) is defined as the Injury Severity Score being greater than 15.2 The ISS is based upon the Abbreviated Injury scale (AIS). To calculate an ISS for an injured person, the body is divided into six ISS body regions. These body regions are: Head or neck – including cervical spine, Face – including the facial skeleton, nose, mouth, eyes and ears, Chest – thoracic spine and diaphragm,
Abdomen or pelvic contents – abdominal organs and lumbar spine, Extremities or pelvic girdle – pelvic skeleton, External