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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2005 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 995-1000
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.995.1000
NISS a Valuable Tool for Trauma Scoring on Autopsy
B. R. Sharma, Manisha Gupta and Sumedha Bangar

Abstract: A retrospective autopsy-based study conducted in correlation with the relevant clinical records and the reports from investigating agencies to analyze the suitability of Injury Severity Score (ISS) and New Injury Severity Score (NISS) in predicting the mortality of trauma victims. Four hundred and forty six autopsy reports of the victims of road traffic accidents were thoroughly studied and the external and internal injuries were assigned AIS coding. Based on this coding ISS and NISS scoring was done. On comparing both scoring systems it was found that ISS, satisfactorily correlates to the survival period among the trauma patients of multiple wounds but NISS was a better scoring system.

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B. R. Sharma, Manisha Gupta and Sumedha Bangar, 2005. NISS a Valuable Tool for Trauma Scoring on Autopsy. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 995-1000.

Keywords: Road-traffic accidents, trauma scoring abbreviated injury scale(ais), injury severity score (iss) and new injury severity score (niss)

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