An emergency department generally sees a hundred thousand patients a year. Approximately, six thousand of these patients present with chest pain, and around only a thousand out of these patients experience Acute Coronary Syndrome (any health condition associated with sudden blockage or reduction of blood flow to the heart). For the remaining patients, the healthcare officials need a method to risk-stratify them into low, intermediate, and high-risk groups so that the patients with a high…

REEDA scale is a clinical tool or method used for assessing the severity and healing complication associated with perineal trauma in the postpartum period. To understand REEDA Assessment in detail, we first need to know what perineal trauma is. Let's get started.

What is Perineal Trauma?

Perineal trauma is associated with viginal tear or episiotomy. It is any…