Injury Severity Score
Overview
The Abbreviated Injury Scale
Abbreviated Injury Scale
Abbreviated injury scale is an anatomical-based scoring system to determine the severity of single injuries based on the survivability of the injury. AIS is one of the most common anatomic scales for traumatic injuries...
(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/.