Author: Amy Brammer BSN RN, Kathryn Loftis PhD, and Sara B. Heltzel MS

The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is the international standard tool for documenting injury details and ranking injury severity. If an injury is not in the AIS dictionary, it cannot be coded. Unfortunately, this is becoming a real problem for many trauma registrars and researchers. Here’s the issue: As their understanding of trauma improves, trauma data…