Comparing Injury Scales for Abdominal Trauma

Dr Santos discusses his recently published article in JACS, Lack of Concordance Between Abbreviated Injury Scale and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale in Patients with High-Grade Solid Organ Injury.

https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/a...

Study Authors:
Jeffrey Santos MD
Shelby Kunz MD
Areg Grigorian MD
Stephen Park MD
Emiliano Tabarsi BA
Kazuhide Matsushima MD, FACS
Liz Penaloza-Villalobos MD
Xian Luo-Owen MD PhD
Kaushik Mukherjee MD, FACS, MSCI
Claudia Alvarez MD
Jeffry Nahmias MD MHPE FACS

Citation: Santos J, Kunz S, Grigorian A, et al. Lack of Concordance Between Abbreviated Injury Scale and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale in Patients with High-Grade Solid Organ Injury. J Am Coll Surg 2024; 239.

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