A comparative medical informatics approach to traumatic pelvic injuries

Traumatic pelvic injury is one of the life threatening injuries because it is often associated with serious hemorrhage. Therefore, it is necessary to provide immediate medical treatments to the pelvic injury patients. But it is often difficult to make a decision because of a lot of similar cases existed. To help this problem, there are several medical applications designed to provide optimized management of hemorrhage during pelvic injuries. Even though they are useful, it is still necessary to have computer-aided system which assists either evaluating the severity of trauma or blood loss and making the most reliable medical treatments depending on the current status of patient by comparing the current trauma case with previously occurred cases, and helping trauma surgeons make more reliable and immediate decisions. Also it has been suggested that having a trauma system with the emphasis on optimal resource utilization and decision-making through computer aided decision-making systems offers the best chance to reduce the cost of trauma care [2]. In this paper, we designed an efficient computer assisted trauma decision making system for traumatic pelvic injuries. More specifically, a rule-based system is designed to create a reliable method of making predictions/recommendations on the status and outcome (ICU days) of treatments of pelvic trauma injuries using nonlinear regression methods and C4.5.