Is mechanism of injury alone in the prehospital setting a predictor of major trauma – a review of the literature

Table 1 Mechanism of Injury Only – Long et al [5]

Criteria	Patients n	ISS > 16	Sensitivity %	Specificity %
Structural intrusion into the patient's space	128	72	56	46
Motor vehicular accident with an extrication time of longer than 20 minutes	52	38	73	73
Patient ejected from the vehicle	82	53	65	65
Fall of 15 ft (4.6 m) or more	37	22	59	59
Other loss of life in the same vehicle compartment	25	21	84	84
Child less than 12 years of age struck by car	18	7	39	39
Pedestrian struck by vehicle and thrown	28	18	64	64

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