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Out-of-hospital Respiratory Measures to Identify Patients With Serious Injury: A Systematic Review.

Mohamud R DayaTamara P CheneyRoger ChouRongwei FuCraig D NewgardMaya E O'NeilNgoc WassonErica L HartAnnette M Totten
Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2020)
Data on the accuracy of out-of-hospital respiratory measures for field triage are limited and of low quality. Based on available research, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and need for airway intervention all have low sensitivity, high specificity, and poor to fair discrimination for identifying seriously injured patients.
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