Trauma Injury Scoring Scale for Liver

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

Trauma - liver
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.
How much of the surface area is occupied by the subcapsular hematoma?
What is the diameter of the intraparenchymal hematoma?
How big is the parenchymal laceration?
How is the vascular injury?

Reference:
  1. AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) 2018 guideline for hepatic 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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