Revised Trauma Score: The Revised Trauma Score (RTS) is a physiologic scoring system, designed for use in based on the initial vital signs of a patient. A lower score indicates a higher severity of injury.
Use in triage: The Revised Trauma
Score is made up of a three categories: Glasgow Coma Scale, Systolic blood
pressure, and respiratory rate. The score range is 0-12. In START triage, a patient with
an RTS score of 12 is labeled delayed, 11 is urgent, and 10-3 is immediate.
Those who have an RTS below 3 are declared dead and should not receive certain
care because they are highly unlikely to survive without a significant amount
of resources.
Scoring: The score is as follows
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