Revised Trauma ScoreThe Revised Trauma Score is a physiological scoring system, with high inter-rater reliability and demonstrated accurracy in predictng death. It is scored from the first set of data obtained on the patient, and consists of Glasgow Coma Scale, Systolic Blood Pressure and Respiratory Rate.
RTS = 0.9368 GCS + 0.7326 SBP + 0.2908 RR Values for the RTS are in the range 0 to 7.8408. The RTS is heavily weighted towards the Glasgow Coma Scale to compensate for major head injury without multisystem injury or major physiological changes. A threshold of RTS < 4 has been proposed to identify those patients who should be treated in a trauma centre, although this value may be somewhat low. This is a preview of the site content. To view the full text for this site, you need to log in. If you are having problems logging in, please refer to the login help page. |
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