Open_fracture_Gustilo_classification v.1
Open fracture Gustilo Classification is an classification tool used to stratify injury severity based on type of trauma and wound characteristics.
To classify the injury severity grade of a wound.
Use to record the injury severity grade in order to stratify the severity of the wound. The classification depends on the severity grade of the user input. Gustilo classification accounts for mainly three factors in stratifying the injury severity: Amount of energy in the injury mechanism, the extent of soft tissue injury and the extent of contamination. Progression from the least severe stages (I and II) to the most severe ones (IIIA, IIIB and IIIC) occurs when all the three factors are severe and there is bone damage and/ or vascular injury.
1. Gustilo RB, Anderson JT. Prevention of infection in the treatment of one thousand and twenty-five open fractures of long bones: retrospective and prospective analyses. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1976 Jun;58(4):453-8. PMID: 773941.
OBSERVATION.open_fracture.v0, EVALUATION.open_fracture_assessment.v0
