revised trauma score revised trauma score the revised trauma score (rts) is a physiologic scoring system based on the initial vital signs of a patient. a lower score indicates a higher severity of injury. revised trauma scorepurposephysiologic scoring system use in triage the revised trauma score is made up of three categories: glasgow coma scale, systolic blood pressure, and respiratory rate. the score range is 0–12. in start triage, a patient with an rts score of 12 is labeled delayed, 11 is urgent, and 3–10 is immediate. those who have an rts below 3 are declared dead and should not receive certain care because they are highly unlikely to survive without a significant amount of resources. scoring the score is as follows: glasgow coma scale gcspoints 15–134 12–93 8–62 5–41 30 systolic blood pressure sbppoints >894 76–893 50–752 1–491 00 respiratory rate rrpoints 10-294 >293 6–92 1–51 00 these three scores (glasgow coma scale, systolic blood pressure, respiratory rate) are then used to take the weighted sum by rts = 0.9368 gcs + 0.7326 sbp + 0.2908 rr. values for the rts are in the range 0 to 7.8408. the rts is heavily weighted towards the glasgow coma scale to compensate for major head injury without multisystem injury or major physiological changes. a threshold of rts > 4 has been proposed to identify those patients who should be treated in a trauma centre, although this value may be somewhat low.