AAST Bladder Injury Scale AAST Bowel Injury Scale AAST Cardiac Injury Scale AAST Diaphragm Injury Scale AAST Hepatic Injury Scale AAST Kidney Injury Scale AAST Lung Injury Scale AAST Pancreatic Injury Scale AAST Rectal Injury Scale AAST Splenic Injury Scale AAST Vascular Injury Scale ABC Score (Massive Transfusion)ACS COT Field Triage Guidelines ATLS Hemorrhagic Shock Classification Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) in Trauma Base Deficit in Trauma Brain Injury Guidelines (BIG) Score Cardiac Wound Index Chest Trauma Score (CTS)Damage Control Decision Score (DCDS)Denver Criteria (BCVI)Esophageal Perforation Severity Score (PSS)Expanded Denver Criteria (BCVI)Flint Colon Injury Scale Frailty Index in Trauma (mFI-5)Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score (GTOS)Hard Signs of Vascular Injury Checklist Hemorrhage Control Decision Aid (Wound Packing vs. Tourniquet)ICP-based Cerebral Perfusion Pressure (CPP) Calculator Injury Severity Score (ISS)Injury Severity Score — Age-adjusted (ISS-Age)Lethal Triad / Trauma Triad of Death Calculator Limb Salvage Index (LSI)Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS)Mechanism, Glasgow Coma Scale, Age, and Arterial Pressure (MGAP)Memphis Criteria (BCVI)Modified Shock Index (MSI)Nerve Injury, Ischemia, Soft-tissue, Skeletal Injury, Shock, Age (NISSSA)New Injury Severity Score (NISS)Open Abdomen Classification (Björck)Pediatric Trauma Score (PTS)Pelvic Trauma Hemorrhage Risk Score Penetrating Abdominal Trauma Index (PATI)Physiologic Extreme Emergency in Trauma (FEET)Predictive Salvage Index (PSI)REBOA Zone Selection Guide Resuscitative Thoracotomy Indications (EAST/WTA Guidelines)Revised Trauma Score (RTS)RibScore Shock Index (SI)TASH Score TRISS Index Thoracic Trauma Severity Score (TTS)Tile Classification of Pelvic Fractures Trauma and Injury Severity Score — Pediatric (PTS)Young–Burgess Pelvic Fracture Classification

Recent Journal Updates

WHO NewsJun 23, 2026

WHO urges scale up of newborn screening to improve early detection and care of birth defects

Clinical Context

We think this might be relevant to the clinical guidance for AAST Cardiac Injury Scale (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma).

PLOS MedicineJun 23, 2026

Comparisons of core component delivery in cardiac rehabilitation programs by country income classification and decade based on the 2025 Global Audit Update: A survey study

Clinical Context

We think this might be relevant to the clinical guidance for AAST Cardiac Injury Scale (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma).

British J HaematologyJun 16, 2026

The quiet brain injury in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: Are we missing the warning signs?

Clinical Context

We think this might be relevant to the clinical guidance for AAST Cardiac Injury Scale (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma).

AAST Cardiac Injury Scale

AASTCardiac Injury Scale

Highest Finding (ECG/Imaging/OR)

Cardiac Injury Grading

Select the highest finding from ECG, imaging, or operative exploration.

Guidelines & Evidence

Verified

Last Review: 2026

When to Use

Penetrating chest trauma (stab wounds, gunshot wounds) with suspected cardiac involvement

Blunt thoracic trauma with suspected myocardial contusion or rupture

Hemodynamic instability with unclear source in thoracic trauma

Pericardial effusion or tamponade identified on FAST exam

Intraoperative findings of cardiac injury requiring classification

Postmortem classification in trauma registries

Tool	Focus	Use Case	Limitations
AAST Cardiac Scale	Anatomic cardiac injury grading	Operative planning, registry	Does not incorporate physiology
Revised Trauma Score (RTS)	Physiologic parameters	Triage, prognosis	Not injury-specific
Injury Severity Score (ISS)	Global injury burden	Outcome prediction	Lacks organ-specific detail
Shock Index	Hemodynamic status	Early shock detection	Non-specific

Does not incorporate hemodynamic status or physiologic derangement

Limited utility in preoperative decision-making without imaging or surgical exploration

Inter-observer variability in imaging-based grading

Less predictive in polytrauma where multiple injuries coexist

Isolated pericardial injuries without myocardial involvement

Non-traumatic cardiac conditions (e.g., MI, myocarditis)

Iatrogenic cardiac injuries outside trauma context

Last Comprehensive Review: 2026

Recent Journal Updates

WHO NewsJun 23, 2026

WHO urges scale up of newborn screening to improve early detection and care of birth defects

Clinical Context

We think this might be relevant to the clinical guidance for AAST Cardiac Injury Scale (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma).

PLOS MedicineJun 23, 2026

Comparisons of core component delivery in cardiac rehabilitation programs by country income classification and decade based on the 2025 Global Audit Update: A survey study

Clinical Context

We think this might be relevant to the clinical guidance for AAST Cardiac Injury Scale (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma).

British J HaematologyJun 16, 2026

The quiet brain injury in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: Are we missing the warning signs?

Clinical Context

We think this might be relevant to the clinical guidance for AAST Cardiac Injury Scale (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma).

AAST Cardiac Injury Scale

AASTCardiac Injury Scale

Highest Finding (ECG/Imaging/OR)

Cardiac Injury Grading

Select the highest finding from ECG, imaging, or operative exploration.

Guidelines & Evidence

Verified

Last Review: 2026

When to Use

Penetrating chest trauma (stab wounds, gunshot wounds) with suspected cardiac involvement

Blunt thoracic trauma with suspected myocardial contusion or rupture

Hemodynamic instability with unclear source in thoracic trauma

Pericardial effusion or tamponade identified on FAST exam

Intraoperative findings of cardiac injury requiring classification

Postmortem classification in trauma registries

Tool	Focus	Use Case	Limitations
AAST Cardiac Scale	Anatomic cardiac injury grading	Operative planning, registry	Does not incorporate physiology
Revised Trauma Score (RTS)	Physiologic parameters	Triage, prognosis	Not injury-specific
Injury Severity Score (ISS)	Global injury burden	Outcome prediction	Lacks organ-specific detail
Shock Index	Hemodynamic status	Early shock detection	Non-specific

Does not incorporate hemodynamic status or physiologic derangement

Limited utility in preoperative decision-making without imaging or surgical exploration

Inter-observer variability in imaging-based grading

Less predictive in polytrauma where multiple injuries coexist

Isolated pericardial injuries without myocardial involvement

Non-traumatic cardiac conditions (e.g., MI, myocarditis)

Iatrogenic cardiac injuries outside trauma context

Last Comprehensive Review: 2026