TASH Score (Trauma Associated Severe Hemorrhage) for Massive Transfusion

Predicts the need for massive transfusion based on clinical and laboratory data.

The Trauma Associated Severe Hemorrhage (TASH) Score is a derived (and then validated) score from a database of over 35,000 German trauma patients to predict the need for massive transfusion.

Yücel N, Lefering R, Maegele M, Vorweg M, Tjardes T, Ruchholtz S, Neugebauer EA, Wappler F, Bouillon B, Rixen D; Polytrauma Study Group of the German Trauma Society. Trauma Associated Severe Hemorrhage (TASH)-Score: probability of mass transfusion as surrogate for life threatening hemorrhage after multiple trauma. J Trauma. 2006 Jun;60(6):1228-36; discussion 1236-7. PubMed PMID: 16766965.

Maegele M, Lefering R, Wafaisade A, Theodorou P, Wutzler S, Fischer P, Bouillon B, Paffrath T; Trauma Registry of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (TR-DGU). Revalidation and update of the TASH-Score: a scoring system to predict the probability for massive transfusion as a surrogate for life-threatening haemorrhage after severe injury. Vox Sang. 2011 Feb;100(2):231-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2010.01387.x. Epub 2010 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 20735809.

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