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  2. Abbreviated Injury Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an anatomical-based coding system created by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine to classify and describe the severity of injuries. [1] [2] [3] It represents the threat to life associated with the injury rather than the comprehensive assessment of the severity of the injury. [4]

  3. Revised Trauma Score - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Altered level of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used tool for measuring LOC objectively is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). It has come into almost universal use for assessing people with brain injury, [2] or an altered level of consciousness. Verbal, motor, and eye-opening responses to stimuli are measured, scored, and added into a final score on a scale of 3–15, with a ...

  5. Glasgow Coma Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Glasgow Coma Scale [1] (GCS) is a clinical scale used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness after a brain injury. The GCS assesses a person based on their ability to perform eye movements, speak, and move their body. These three behaviours make up the three elements of the scale: eye, verbal, and motor.

  6. Is Walking Or Running Better For You? Experts Weigh In. - AOL

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    In order to prevent injury, you wouldn’t want to start doing all of these options at the same time. Pick one and incorporate it on your walks so as not to overwhelm your body.

  7. Trauma center - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, a Level I center has a program of research, is a leader in trauma education and injury prevention, and is a referral resource for communities in nearby regions. [ 21 ] Level I and II trauma centers are focused on maintaining the capability "to take a patient to the operating room immediately 24/7/365 ". [ 22 ]

  8. Fed Monetary Policy Report flags solid economy, elevated markets

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    When it comes to overall borrowing levels, total debt levels for households and non-financial firms "continued to trend down to a level that is very low relative to that in the past two decades."

  9. AVPU - Wikipedia

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    The AVPU scale (an acronym from "alert, verbal, pain, unresponsive") is a system by which a health care professional can measure and record a patient's level of consciousness. [1] It is mostly used in emergency medicine protocols, and within first aid .