NACA score
The NACA score , also known as the NACA scheme or NACA index , is a scoring system used to describe the severity of injuries , illnesses or poisoning in (emergency) medicine . It was originally developed by the eponymous National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as an operational assessment with regard to accidents in aviation.
In Germany, the injury codes of the seven-degree NACA score were integrated into a nationwide emergency doctor deployment protocol.
The NACA scheme, which exists in two variants, is divided into the following categories, denoted by Roman numerals or zero .
The NACA-S score:
NACA 0 | No injury or illness. This category is often either deleted without replacement or replaced by NACA I. |
z. B. Misuse. |
NACA I | Minor injury or malfunction. Usually no emergency medical intervention is required. | z. B. Bruise, slight abrasion of the skin. |
NACA II | Mild to moderately severe dysfunction. Outpatient medical evaluation or therapy, but usually no emergency medical measures required. | z. B. Fracture of a finger bone, moderate cuts; Second degree burn. |
NACA III | Moderate to severe but not life threatening disorder. Inpatient treatment required, often also emergency medical measures on site. | z. B. Open wounds; Thigh fracture; mild stroke ; Smoke poisoning . |
NACA IV | Severe disorder in which the short-term development of a life threat cannot be excluded; In the majority of cases, emergency medical care is required. | z. B. Vertebral injury with neurological deficits; severe asthma attack ; Drug poisoning. |
NACA V | Acute danger to life. Transport in readiness for resuscitation. | z. B. Third Degree Traumatic Brain Injury; severe heart attack ; significant opioid poisoning. |
NACA VI | Respiratory and / or cardiac arrest (cardiopulmonary resuscitation required). | z. B. Cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation. |
NACA VII | Fatal injury or illness. | Unsuccessful resuscitation or determination of death. |
literature
- Walied Abdulla: Interdisciplinary Intensive Care Medicine. Urban & Fischer, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-437-41410-0 , p. 469.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ivr-ias.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Terminologie-IVR-IAS.pdf , p. 21
- ^ DocCheck Flexikon: NACA score (quoted).