Abstract:BACKGROUND Trauma is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in young adults. Risk stratification in these patients remains challenging even today. There is a need for a readily available simple prognostic method to categorise these patients and predict the morbidity. We intend to measure and correlate red cell distribution width and total leucocyte count in patients presenting with trauma, within 24 hours of injury, with the outcome. METHODS We included 52 haemodynamically stable, previously healthy, tr… Show more
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