Library & Resources

Helpful Links

Scaling and Scoring Information

AAAM Scaling and Scoring Course
www.carcrash.org

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
www.aast.org

AAST Organ Injury Definitions
http://www.aast.org/Library/TraumaTools/InjuryScoringScales.aspx

Certification Exam

Professional Testing Corporation
www.ptcny.com

Additional Resources

American College of Surgeons
www.facs.org

National Trauma Data Bank
http://www.facs.org/trauma/ntdb/index.html

National Trauma Data Standards: Data Dictionary
http://www.ntdsdictionary.org/

Trauma Quality Improvement Project
http://acstqip.org/

Society of Trauma Nurses
http://www.traumanurses.org/

TOPIC Course
http://www.traumanurses.org/topic-courses.html

Information on TS, RTS, ISS, TRISS, GCS, etc
Trauma.org Care of the Injured
www.trauma.org

Trauma Register Software Vendors:

Clinical Data Management “Trauma Base”
https://www.c-d-m.com/index.html

Digital Innovations “Collector”
http://www.dicorp.com/

Image Trend
http://www.imagetrend.com/default.cfm?PID=1.3.1

Lancet Technology “Trauma One”
http://www.lancettechnology.com/

Common Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are commonly found in trauma registries across the country. We have provided the meaning for each for a short reference list:
AAAM American Association of Automotive Medicine
ACS American College of Surgeons
AIS Abbreviated Injury Scale
ARDS Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
CHI Closed Head Injury
DAI Diffuse Axonal Injury
DOA Dead on Arrival
DVT Deep Venous Thrombosis
ETT Endotracheal Tube
FFP Fresh Frozen Plasma
GCS Glasgow Coma Score
GSW Gun Shot Wound
ICD-9 International Classification of Diseases
ICP Intracerebral Pressure
ISS Injury Severity Score
MCC Motorcycle Crash
MVC Motor Vehicle Crash
NGT Nasogastric Tube
NTDB National Trauma Data Bank
NTDS National Trauma Data Standards
ORIF Open Reduction Internal Fixation
PE Pulmonary Embolus
PI Performance Improvement
PLT Platelets
PRBC Packed Red Blood Cells
PS Probability of Survival
RTS Revised Trauma Score
SAH Subarchnoid Hemorrhage
SCI Spinal Cord Injury
SDH Subdural Hematoma
TQIP Trauma Quality Improvement Project
TS Trauma Score
UTI Urinary Tract Infection