Trauma Injury Scoring Scale for Kidney

2018 AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) guideline

Trauma - kidney
Which injuries have you identified?
* Vascular injury is defined as a pseudoaneurysm or arteriovenous fistula and appears as a focal collection of vascular contrast that decreases in attenuation with delayed imaging.
What is the depth of parenchymal laceration?
How is the vascular injury?

Reference:
  1. AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) 2018 guideline for renal injury scoring.
  2. Organ injury scaling: spleen, liver, and kidney. Moore EE, Shackford SR, Pachter HL, McAninch JW, Browner BD, Champion HR, Flint LM, Gennarelli TA, Malangoni MA, Ramenofsky ML, Trafton PG. J Trauma. 1989 Dec;29(12):1664-6.
  3. Organ injury scaling: spleen and liver (1994 revision). Moore EE, Cogbill TH, Jurkovich GJ, Shackford SR, Malangoni MA, Champion HR. J Trauma. 1995 Mar;38(3):323-4.

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