Joshua R Lupton, Cynthia Davis-O'Reilly, Rebecca M Jungbauer, Craig D Newgard, Mary E Fallat, Joshua B Brown, N Clay Mann, Gregory J Jurkovich, Eileen Bulger, Mark L Gestring, E Brooke Lerner, Roger Chou, Annette M Totten
OBJECTIVES: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's field triage guidelines (FTG) are routinely used by emergency medical services personnel for triaging injured patients. The most recent (2011) FTG contains physiologic, anatomic, mechanism, and special consideration steps. Our objective was to systematically review the criteria in the mechanism and special consideration steps that might be predictive of serious injury or need for a trauma center. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of the predictive utility of mechanism and special consideration criteria for predicting serious injury...
September 2022: Academic Emergency Medicine