The management of polytrauma patients is clinically challenging and requires a multi-disciplinary team approach. The immediate and definitive operative care of fractures represents the optimal treatment for polytrauma patients with orthopedic injuries. Early orthopedic intervention in long bone fractures and pelvic ring injuries has been shown to decrease pulmonary complications, improve hemody...

Treatment of patients with polytrauma is a difficult problem for surgeons and physicians intensive care units due to the fact that multiple complex lesion often serves as trigger development number life-threatening complications, such pulmonary embolism (PE). Despite existing methods prevention treatment embolism, this complication in accompanied by massive hemorrhageisstill remains an unsolved...

OBJECTIVE A significant number of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans are returning from deployment and presenting to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) polytrauma clinics with elevated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Inherent to the accurate assessment and treatment of this diagnostically complex group of...

Since prehistoric times, physicians have been called upon to treat polytrauma patients. However, the demand for treatment has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, as the incidence of high velocity trauma has risen, and following the introduction of the concept of damage control. In developed countries, political decisions impacting on road safety (by measures such as motorway constructi...

BACKGROUND Polytrauma patients nowadays tend to be older due to the growth of the elderly population and its improved mobility. The aim of this study was to compare demographics, injury patterns, injury mechanisms and outcomes between younger and older polytrauma patients. METHODS Data from polytrauma (ISS≥16) patients between 2009 and 2014 were extracted from the Dutch trauma registry (DTR)....

Civilians and military personnel alike are increasingly being exposed to explosives in war zones and other regions of political conflict and, consequently, they are suffering associated blast-related polytrauma (multiple complex injuries). Although acute, emergency-based medical care for patients with blast-related trauma has been well described, postacute clinical management--which is of great...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine if differences in clinical diagnosis versus autopsy findings concerning the cause of death in polytrauma fatalities would be detected in 19 cases of fatal polytrauma from a Level 1 trauma centre. METHODS Clinical diagnoses determining the cause of death in 19 cases of fatal polytrauma (2007 - 2008) from a Level 1 trauma centre were correlated w...

Appropriate care of pediatric polytrauma patients requires the knowledge and expertise of a variety of subspecialists. Though most of pediatric polytrauma patients survive, long-term sequelae are common. The most common causes of long-term functional deficits after pediatric polytrauma involve injuries to the central nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Orthopaedic care of polytrauma patients i...

Retrospective analysis of the anatomical and functional outcomes surgical treatment 1024 patients with polytrauma was performed in trauma department FBRSCEMA for period from 2005 to 2020. High-tech methods minimally invasive osteosynthesis have been increasingly used recent years order improve results polytrauma. 1340 operations were carried on (76.4%) patients. The share interventions 83.4% (8...