The European Center for Injury Prevention hosts two courses on injury scaling AIS 2005-update 2008
Pamplona, 16 de mayo de 2011.-
El The European Center for Injury Prevention (ECIP) at the University of Navarra recently hosted two courses on "Injury Scaling: AIS 2005-Update 2008: Uses and Techniques", as part of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) program to further promote the use of the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) throughout Europe and non-English speaking countries.
The first course, held on 5th-6th May, was aimed at English-speaking professionals and was presented by Ms. Jan Price,the AAAM’s Technical Coordinator for AIS, and Dr. María Seguí, Professor and Director of ECIP. Engineers and physicians from Germany, Denmark and Sweden were among the attendants.
The second course, held on 10th-11th May, was presented in Spanish and included engineers and health professionals from different parts of Spain and South America. This time the faculty consisted of Dr. María Seguí and Ms. Rebeca Abajas, a registered nurse from the University of Cantabria. The course was supervised by Ms. Jan Price.
Both courses included approximately 14 hours of classroom work, divided into lectures and work sessions in which actual hospital charts were used for coding exercises.
At the end of these courses, students were able to: share and improve data collection tools to better understand the causes of injury mortality and morbidity; understand the structure, organization and contents of the Abbreviated Injury Scale 2005 update 2008; abstract injury data; rule out information that is not codeable; distinguish between injuries and outcomes; apply injury coding rules and guidelines specific to each body region; and to apply rules for calculating the Injury Severity Score (ISS) for multiple body region injuries.
These events coincided with the launch of the Decade of Action for Road Traffic 2011-2020, an initiative created by the UN and WHO with the goal of stabilizing, and eventually reducing, the number of deaths and injuries caused by road safety issues around the world.