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Current trauma scoring systems and their applications: a review

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Trauma Operative Procedures

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Trauma is the consequence of an external cause of injury that results in tissue damage or destruction produced by intentional or unintentional exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy, or by the absence of heat or oxygen.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Cattinara Hospital, Trieste, Italy

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  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium

    H. Delooz MD

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van Camp, L.A., Delooz, H. (1999). Current trauma scoring systems and their applications: a review. In: Berlot, G., Delooz, H., Gullo, A. (eds) Trauma Operative Procedures. Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2151-8_2

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