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Trauma medicine

a four-item score of penetrating mechanism, low blood pressure, fast heart rate and positive FAST that predicts the need for massive transfusion.

In trauma medicine, ABC score refers to a four-item score of penetrating mechanism, low blood pressure, fast heart rate and positive FAST that predicts the need for massive transfusion. This meaning comes from Nunez (2009) in Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care.[1]

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injury2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two carriers mechanism4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs need3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Nunez, T. C., Voskresensky, I. V., Dossett, L. A., Shinall, R., Dutton, W. D., & Cotton, B. A. (2009). Early Prediction of Massive Transfusion in Trauma: Simple as ABC (Assessment of Blood Consumption)? Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care, 66(2), 346-352. https://doi.org/10.1097/ta.0b013e3181961c35

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