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Efficacy of a “Standard” seizure workup in the Emergency Department

✍ Scribed by R Eisner; T Turnbull; D Howes; I Gold

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
146 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
1097-6760

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✦ Synopsis

sential to use a valid scale that requires no extra tasks beyond stabilization and transport. A scoring system suited for prehospital care was sought, using a microcomputer to develop and verify progressive simplifications. Data elements were uniformly graded and limited to objectifiable observations routinely made at trauma scenes; impossible or redundant element value combinations were identified and excluded. This process produced a scale, the Jax System (JS), nearly identical to a grading of vital signs, with performance comparable to the CTS. Because JS contains only 4 routinely assessed data elements {respiratory rate, blood pressure, pulse, and neurological), it represents a significant improvement in applicability for prehospital scoring. High-degree correlation between the 2 systems was confirmed by computergenerated comparisons of each of the 18,000 possible CTS scoring combinations with its JS counterpart.

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