System to evaluate injuries subsequent to violent trauma
Revised Trauma Score
Purpose
physiologic scoring system
The Revised Trauma Score (RTS) is a physiologic scoring system based on the initial vital signs of a patient.[1] A lower score indicates a higher severity of injury.[2]
Use in triage
The Revised Trauma Score is made up of three categories: Glasgow Coma Scale, systolic blood pressure, and respiratory rate. The score range is 0–12. In START triage, a patient with an RTS score of 12 is labeled delayed, 11 is urgent, and 3–10 is immediate. Those who have an RTS below 3 are declared dead and should not receive certain care because they are highly unlikely to survive without a significant amount of resources.[citation needed]
Scoring
The score is as follows:[3]
Glasgow Coma Scale
GCS
Points
15–13
4
12–9
3
8–6
2
5–4
1
3
0
Systolic Blood Pressure
SBP
Points
>89
4
76–89
3
50–75
2
1–49
1
0
0
Respiratory Rate
RR
Points
10-29
4
>29
3
6–9
2
1–5
1
0
0
These three scores (Glasgow Coma Scale, Systolic Blood Pressure, Respiratory Rate) are then used to take the weighted sum by RTS = 0.9368 GCSP + 0.7326 SBPP + 0.2908 RRP Values for the RTS are in the range 0 to 7.8408. The RTS is heavily weighted towards the Glasgow Coma Scale to compensate for major head injury without multisystem injury or major physiological changes. A threshold of RTS < 4 has been proposed to identify those patients who should be treated in a trauma centre, although this value may be somewhat low.
^Taber, Clarence Wilbur; Venes, Donald (2009). Taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary. F a Davis Co. pp. 2366. ISBN 978-0-8036-1559-5.
^Champion HR, Sacco WJ, Copes WS, Gann DS, Gennarelli TA, Flanagan ME (May 1989). "A revision of the Trauma Score". The Journal of Trauma. 29 (5): 623–9. doi:10.1097/00005373-198905000-00017. PMID 2657085.