Francisco Martín-Rodríguez, Ancor Sanz-García, Ana Benito Justel, Almudena Morales Sánchez, Cristina Mazas Perez Oleaga, Irene Delgado Noya, Irene Sánchez Soberón, Carlos Del Pozo Vegas, Juan F Delgado Benito, Raúl López-Izquierdo
Background: Prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) are the main gateway for trauma patients. Recent advances in point-of-care testing and the development of early warning scores have allowed EMS to improve patient classification. We aimed to identify patients presenting with major trauma involving life-saving interventions (LSI) using the modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (mSOFA) score in the prehospital scenario, and to compare these results with those of other trauma scores. Methods: This was a prospective, ambulance-based, multicenter, training-validation study in trauma patients who were treated in a prehospital setting and subsequently transported to a hospital...
September 2023: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine