Table 4.
Description of Kampala Trauma Score and road traffic accident injury severity in west Ethiopia, 2019.
| No | Parameter | Value | Kampala Trauma Severity Score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Frequency | Percent | |||
| 1 | Age in years | ||||
| <5 | 1 | Mild(13–16) | 21 | 7.81 | |
| 6–55 | 2 | ||||
| >55 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Number of serious injuries | ||||
| None | 3 | ||||
| One | 2 | ||||
| Two or more | 1 | ||||
| 3 | Systolic blood pressure in mmHg | Moderate(9–12) | 183 | 68.03 | |
| >89 | 4 | ||||
| 50–89 | 3 | ||||
| 1–49 | 2 | ||||
| Undetectable | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Respiratory rate breath per minute | ||||
| 10–29 | 3 | ||||
| >30 | 2 | ||||
| <9 | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Neurologic status | Severe/fatal (5–8) | 65 | 24.16 | |
| Alert | 4 | ||||
| Responds to verbal stimuli | 3 | ||||
| Responds to pain stimuli | 2 | ||||
| Unresponsive | 1 | ||||
| Total | 269 | 100 | |||