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ArticleEuropean journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society2022

The AdHOC (age, head injury, oxygenation, circulation) score: a simple assessment tool for early assessment of severely injured patients with major fractures.

Adrian Knoepfel, Roman Pfeifer, Rolf Lefering, Hans-Christoph Pape, TraumaRegister DGU

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Adrian KnoepfelDepartment of Trauma, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland. adrian.knoepfel@usz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9836-9185
Roman PfeiferDepartment of Trauma, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8785-8103
Rolf LeferingInstitute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), University Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0141-1747
Hans-Christoph PapeDepartment of Trauma, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2059-4980
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purposeWe sought to develop a simple, effective and accurate assessment tool using well-known prognostic parameters to predict mortality and morbidity in severely injured patients with major fractures at the stage of the trauma bay.

methodsEuropean Data from the TraumaRegister DGU

resultsAn increasing AdHOC (Age, Head injury, Oxygenation, Circulation) score value in the 17,827 included patients correlated with increasing mortality (0 points = 0.3%, 1 point = 5.3%, 2 points = 15.6%, 3 points = 42.5% and 4 points = 62.6%). With an AUROC of 0.858 for the development (n = 14,047) and 0.877 for the validation (n = 3780) group dataset, the score is superior in performance compared to the Injury Severity Score (0.806/0.815).

conclusionThe AdHOC score appears to be easy and accessible in every emergency room without the requirement of special diagnostic tools or knowledge of the exact injury pattern and can be useful for the planning of further surgical treatment.

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Craniocerebral TraumaFractures, BoneAdolescentGermanyHumansInjury Severity ScorePrognosisRegistriesMortality predictionScoreSeverely injuredTrauma

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