Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an anatomically based consensus-derived global severity scoring system that classifies each injury in every body region according to its relative severity on a six point ordinal scale:
- Minor
- Moderate
- Serious
- Severe
- Critical
- Maximal (currently untreatable).
There are nine AIS chapters corresponding to nine body regions:
- Head
- Face
- Neck
- Thorax
- Abdomen
- Spine
- Upper Extremity
- Lower Extremity
- External and other.
The official website for AIS is http://www.aaam1.org/ais/. The site is conducted by the AIS Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
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