So you need a surgeon? Need for surgeon presence as an alternative metric to predict outcomes and assess triage in the pediatric trauma population

This retrospective study of 19,139 pediatric trauma patients proposes Need for Surgical Presence (NSP) as an alternative metric to Injury Severity Score for predicting mortality and assessing triage. NSP criteria, which can be assigned shortly after patient arrival, performed comparably to ISS in mortality prediction and may improve resource utilization in trauma activations.