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Cervical vascular injury-trauma grading

Cardiac injuries are graded I-VI with increasing severity having higher grading (e.g. grade VI injuries are not salvageable).

Grade I

Grade II

Grade III

Grade IV

Grade V

Grade VI

Note that the grading is increased by one grade for multiple penetrating wounds to a single chamber or multiple chamber involvement.

References

Moore EE, et al. Organ injury scaling IV: thoracic vascular, lung, cardiac and diaphragm. J Trauma. 1994;36:229. Trauma scoring. Trauma.org. Available at http://www.trauma.org/archive/scores/ois-heart.html (Accessed 23 April 2008)


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