Abstract
The trauma has had greater prominence in the world scientific community since the early 1960s. The increase in weapons of mass destruction, the increasingly ruthless technology regarding the production of lethal weapons (chemical, firearms, etc.), and acts terrorists in metropolitan cities have made sure that more funds and more research were aimed at trauma. The concept of treatment of any type of traumatic injury has always been obvious. In order to facilitate and speed up the treatment, over the years we have tried to exemplify the type of treatments to be administered using simple, clear but complete protocols. The need arose to guarantee a common language. Numerous scores have been introduced to better characterize trauma patients. Numerous parameters have been taken into consideration before each draft. The victim’s age together with the type of trauma immediately imposed the need for different, tailor-made scores. This chapter aims to give a simple knowledge of the main trauma scores and their historical evolution.
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Perrone, G., Bonati, E., Tarasconi, A., Abongwa, H.K., Catena, F. (2021). Injuries and Scoring Systems. In: Pikoulis, E., Doucet, J. (eds) Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Disaster Management. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34116-9_12
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