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Descriptor English: Abbreviated Injury Scale
Descriptor Spanish: Escala Resumida de Traumatismos
Descriptor escala abreviada de lesiones
Entry term(s) escala resumida de lesiones
Scope note: Sistema de clasificación para la evaluación de la gravedad de las lesiones por impacto, desarrollado y publicado por la Asociación Americana para la Medicina Automotriz. Es el sistema de selección para clasificar lesiones únicas y la base para métodos de evaluación de lesiones múltiples o para evaluar los efectos acumulativos de más de una lesión. Comprende la Escala Máxima Abreviada de lesiones (MAIS, sigla en inglés), la Puntuación de Gravedad de la lesión (ISS, siglas en inglés), y la Puntuación de Probabilidad de Muerte (PODS, siglas en inglés).
Descriptor Portuguese: Escala Resumida de Ferimentos
Descriptor French: Échelle abrégée des traumatismes
Entry term(s): Abbreviated Injury Scales
Injury Scale, Abbreviated
Injury Scales, Abbreviated
Scale, Abbreviated Injury
Scales, Abbreviated Injury
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.940.968.875.125
E05.944.250
N04.452.859.564.800.125
N05.715.360.300.715.500.800.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015998
Scope note: Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include Maximum AIS (MAIS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), and Probability of Death Score (PODS).
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Wounds and Injuries/classification (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990
History Note: 91(90); was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990
Entry Version: ABBREVIATED INJ SCALE
DeCS ID: 24500
Unique ID: D015998
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Abbreviated Injury Scale - Preferred
Concept UI M0024458
Scope note Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include Maximum AIS (MAIS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), and Probability of Death Score (PODS).
Preferred term Abbreviated Injury Scale
Entry term(s) Abbreviated Injury Scales
Injury Scale, Abbreviated
Injury Scales, Abbreviated
Scale, Abbreviated Injury
Scales, Abbreviated Injury



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