Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 1990 - Update 98 by AAAM and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Abstract. The Abbreviated Injury Scale with Epidemiologic Modifications (AIS 85-EM) was developed to make it possible to code information about anatomic injury types and locations that, although generally available from medical records, is not codable under the standard Abbreviated Injury Scale, published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine in 1985 (AIS 85). injury severity. The 1980 revision incorporated several significant changes in injury scaling methodology. The Abbreviated injury Scale-1980 revision17 should be consulted for detailed explanations of these changes. ASSESSMENT OF MULTIPLE INJURIES The AIS remains a system that codes single injuries and is the foundation for methods to assess The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) introduced in 1971 is a widely used anatomical injury severity scale [18]. AIS has been revised in 1980, 1985, 1990, 2005, 2008and 2015. Its 1990 classifies more Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 2005 Manual by AAAM, 2005,Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medi edition, Paperback - 1 edition. Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. About AIS The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) incorporates current medical terminology providing an The New Injury Severity Score (NISS) as it was called, was defined as the sum of the squares of the Abbreviated Injury Scale scores of each of the patient's three most severe injury regardless of the body region in which they occur [Osler, Baker, Long, 1997]. the 2005 revision of the Abbreviated Injury Scale was used. dEScRiPtoRS Wounds and injuries Trauma severity indices Abbreviated Injury Scale Hospital mortality Emergency nursing Measuring trauma severity using the 1998 and 2005 revisions of the Abbreviated Injury Scale* Maria carolina barbosa teixeira Lopes1, iveth Yamaguchi Whitaker2 Abbreviated Injury Scale