The Trauma Induced Coagulopathy Clinical Score (TICCS): a tool for sever trauma patients management.

Early pre-hospital “flagging” of trauma patients with active bleeding and TIC could allow general emergency units preparing the specific resources needed to offer high quality DCR at patient’s arrival at the emergency unit for the limited number patients needing it (impact on cost-effectiveness of patient’s support) and would shorten the time between injury and DCR initiation (impact on patients’ survival). The TICCS is a easy-to-measure purely clinical score that seems to be a predictive tool, able to discriminate trauma patients with active bleeding, TIC and in need for DCR from those without this aggravating combination