Prehospital intubation and chest decompression is associated with unexpected survival in major thoracic blunt trauma

Objective:  Application of the Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) to a trauma population identifies patients with ‘unexpected survival’. This study used TRISS analysis to identify ‘unexpected survivors’ suffering major thoracic trauma, who survived to hospital discharge. Further analysis determined prehospital interventions that appeared to contribute to ‘unexpected survival’.

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