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The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an anatomical
scoring system first introduced in 1969. Since this time it has been
revised and updated against survival so that it now provides a reasonably
accurrate was of ranking the severity of injury. The latest incarnation
of the AIS score is the 1990 revision. The AIS is monitored by a scaling
committee of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
Injuries are ranked on a scale of 1 to 6, with 1 being minor,
5 severe and 6 an unsurvivable injury. This represents the 'threat
to life' associated with an injury and is not meant to represent
a comprehensive measure of severity. The AIS is not an injury scale,
in that the difference between AIS1 and AIS2 is not the same as
that between AIS4 and AIS5. There are many similarities between
the AIS scale and the Organ Injury Scales
of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
Copes
WS, Sacco WJ, Champion HR, Bain LW, "Progress in Characterising
Anatomic Injury", In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of
the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Baltimore,
MA, USA 205-218 Association for the
Advancement of Automotive Medicine |