Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the Stavanger University Hospital (SUH) trauma registry

Absolute:

Patients only fulfilling relative criteria are excluded if:

  · Activated trauma team

  · Penetrating injury to:

  · Isolated fracture and skin injury (AIS 1) in:

    ∘ Head

    ∘ Upper extremity

    ∘ Neck

    ∘ Lower extremity

    ∘ Trunk

    ∘ Floor of the orbit

    ∘ Extremities proximal to the knee or elbow

  · Chronic subdural haematoma

  · Drowning, inhalation injury, asphyxia-related injury (hanging, strangulation)

Relative:

  · ISS ≥10

  · Secondary admission to SUH >24 hours after injury