Comparison of Vital Sign Cutoffs to Identify Children With Major Trauma

• 2024

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• Jillian Gorski; Pradip Chaudhari; Ryan Spurrier; Seth Goldstein; Suhail Zeineddin; Christian Martin-Gill; Robert Sepanski; Anne Stey; Sriram Ramgopal
PMID: 38363566DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.56472

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This study compared different vital sign criteria to identify major trauma in children. It examined the effectiveness of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) criteria with empirically derived criteria in identifying major trauma in children. The research, using data from US trauma centers, revealed that the empirically derived criteria showed a balance between sensitivity and specificity, performing similarly to PALS and better than ATLS criteria. These findings indicate that using empirically derived vital sign criteria can help identify children at high risk of trauma-related complications, potentially improving outcomes in pediatric trauma cases.

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Focus Areas: Everyday Emergency; Trauma

Audiences: Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Keywords: Child; Hospitals; Trauma Centers; Trauma Severity Indices; Triage; Vital Signs

Institutions: Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Northwestern University; Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN); University of Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; University of Southern California; Eastern Virginia Medical School; Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters

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