University of Florida News - UF surgeons, research biologists create scale to grade shark bite severity
Hope you didn't get a level V.
Hope you didn't get a level V.
...compiling the total score using the SIT assessment indicates the level of bite severity as outlined in the newly created five-level grading system. ?If it?s just an extremity and it?s an abrasion, it?s just a Level I injury,? Lentz said. ?If a shark comes up and takes a big bite out of a thigh and takes out the femoral artery, then that?s a life-ending bite ? pretty quickly ? and you are talking about a Level V injury.?...