Injury Severity Score - Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)

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:

  1. Minor
  2. Moderate
  3. Serious
  4. Severe
  5. Critical
  6. Maximal (currently untreatable).

There are nine AIS chapters corresponding to nine body regions:

  1. Head
  2. Face
  3. Neck
  4. Thorax
  5. Abdomen
  6. Spine
  7. Upper Extremity
  8. Lower Extremity
  9. 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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