Assessment of polytraumatized patients according to the Berlin Definition: Does the addition of physiological data really improve interobserver reliability?

BACKGROUND:Several new definitions for categorizing the severely injured as the Berlin Definition have been developed. Here, severely injured patients are selected by additive physiological parameters and by the general Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)-based assessment. However, all definitions should...

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Main Authors: Carina Eva Maria Pothmann, Stephen Baumann, Kai Oliver Jensen, Ladislav Mica, Georg Osterhoff, Hans-Peter Simmen, Kai Sprengel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6107114?pdf=render