Trauma Injury Scoring Scale for Spleen

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

Trauma - Spleen
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 extent of subscapular hematoma?
What is the depth of parenchymal laceration?
What is the extent of intraparenchymal hematoma?
How is the vascular injury?
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Reference:
  1. Zarzaur, B. L., Kozar, R., Myers, J. G., Claridge, J. A., Scalea, T. M., Neideen, T. A., Maung, A. A., Alarcon, L., Corcos, A., Kerwin, A., & Coimbra, R. (2015). The splenic injury outcomes trial: An American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multi-institutional study. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 79(3), 335–342. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000000782
  2. AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) 2018 guideline for splenic injury scoring.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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