Audit of surgical trauma in a tertiary care hospital of southern Punjab

ABSTRACT

Background:-incidence of major trauma is high in this part of the country with an equally high mortality. Trauma care has improved globally after introduction of trauma audit in various centers of the world. Trauma-Injury Severity Score [TRISS] is used for determining survival probability and evaluation of trauma care based on Injury Severity Score, Revised Trauma Score and focused on trauma outcome [deaths and survivors]