The Trauma Associated Severe Hemorrhage (TASH) Score of Yucel et al for Predicting the Need for Massive Transfusion After Multiple Trauma
Purpose: | To determine if a patient with multiple traumatic injuries is likely to require massive blood transfusions based on the TASH score of Yucel et al. |
Specialty: | Clinical Laboratory General Surgery Anesthesiology Emergency Medicine Critical Care |
Objective: | criteria for diagnosis, severity, prognosis, stage, selection |
ICD-10: | D62, T79, Z51.3 |
Description: | Yucek et al developed the Trauma Associated Severe Hemorrhage (TASH) score for identifying trauma patients who are likely to require massive blood transfusions. This is a surrogate marker for life-threatening hemorrhage after multiple trauma. The authors are from the Polytrauma Study Group of the German Trauma Society. |
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