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Background: Easy-to-use trauma scoring systems can be used for making good clinical decision before the patient reaches the hospital and at emergency department. These scoring systems can also be used for timely delivering medical support and preparing the patient for surgery in early stage. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of trauma scoring systems such as the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), and Revised Trauma Score (RTS) to predict outcomes in young children with traumatic injuries. Methods: This was a potential cross-sectional study that was conducted in the emergency department of Suez Canal University Hospitals. We included 86 children patients younger than 6 years of age who were presented to hospital via the emergency department with any traumatic injury and compared the trauma outcomes for GCS, ISS, and RTS on patient outcomes. Results: The main type of accident encountered in our study was fall from height (33.7%) followed by road traffic accidents (29.1%). Mortality rate in our study was 4.7%. The mean trauma scores of ISS, GCS, and RTS in our studied population were 11.47, 14.21, and 7.79, respectively. All trauma scores differed with statistical significance (p17, ≤7, and ≤5, respectively. |
