Table 1 Hospital Defined Major Trauma
From: The experience of linking Victorian emergency medical service trauma data
• Death after injury |
• Admission to an Intensive Care Unit for more than 24 hours, requiring mechanical ventilation |
• Urgent surgery for intracranial, intrathoracic, or intraabdominal injury, or for fixation of pelvic or spinal fractures |
• Injury Severity Score (ISS) > 15 |
• Serious injury to two or more body systems (excluding integumentary) |