The role of trauma scoring in developing trauma clinical governance in the Defence Medical Services

Author:

Russell R. J.1,Hodgetts T. J.1,McLeod J.2,Starkey K.3,Mahoney P.4,Harrison K.5,Bell E.1

Affiliation:

1. Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham Research Park, Vincent Drive, Birmingham B15 2SQ, UK

2. Royal Air Force Centre for Aviation Medicine, UK

3. Newcastle University Medical School, UK

4. Department of Military Anaesthesia and Critical Care, UK

5. Defence Analysis and Statistical Assistance, UK

Abstract

This paper discusses mathematical models of expressing severity of injury and probability of survival following trauma and their use in establishing clinical governance of a trauma system. There are five sections: (i) Historical overview of scoring systems —anatomical, physiological and combined systems and the advantages and disadvantages of each. (ii) Definitions used in official statistics —definitions of ‘killed in action’ and other categories and the importance of casualty reporting rates and comparison across conflicts and nationalities. (iii) Current scoring systems and clinical governance —clinical governance of the trauma system in the Defence Medical Services (DMS) by using trauma scoring models to analyse injury and clinical patterns. (iv) Unexpected outcomes —unexpected outcomes focus clinical governance tools. Unexpected survivors signify good practice to be promulgated. Unexpected deaths pick up areas of weakness to be addressed. Seventy-five clinically validated unexpected survivors were identified over 2 years during contemporary combat operations. (v) Future developments —can the trauma scoring methods be improved? Trauma scoring systems use linear approaches and have significant weaknesses. Trauma and its treatment is a complex system. Nonlinear methods need to be investigated to determine whether these will produce a better approach to the analysis of the survival from major trauma.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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