Injury
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Accuracy of early warning scores for predicting serious adverse events in pre-hospital traumatic injury.
Traumatically injured patients are at higher risk of serious adverse events. Numerous physiological scoring systems are employed as diagnostic and/or prognostic tools. The objective of this study was to evaluate the scales most commonly used by emergency medical services for the early detection of prehospital serious adverse events. ⋯ All scoring systems were able to detect prehospital serious adverse events early in traumatic injury; therefore, any of the scoring systems could be useful and represent an ideal tool for routine use by emergency medical services in cases of traumatic injury.