The Mangled Extremity Score and amputation: Time for a revision

BACKGROUND: The Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS) was developed 25 years ago in an attempt to utilize the extent of skeletal and soft tissue injury, limb ischemia, shock, and age to predict the need for amputation after extremity injury. Subsequently, there have been mixed reviews as to the ut...

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Published in:J Trauma Acute Care Surg
Main Authors: Loja, Melissa N., Sammann, Amanda, DuBose, Joseph, Li, Chin-Shang, Liu, Yu, Savage, Stephanie, Scalea, Thomas, Holcomb, John B., Rasmussen, Todd E., Knudson, M. Margaret
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321791/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28030489
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000001339
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