Clinical Management and Challenges in Polytrauma

• Other Authors: Pfeifer, Roman (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; pelvic ring fracture; PCCD; position; associated injuries; geriatric trauma; scoring; polytrauma; ISS; AIS; geriatric patients; orthogeriatric; E-bike injuries; outcome; injury pattern comparison; traumatic injury; reactive oxygen species; phagocytosis; CD14; CD16; CD62L; fMLP; PMA; emergency surgery; trauma team competence; trauma system; life-saving intervention; trauma; non-invasive external pelvic stabilizers; bleeding; pelvic fractures; post mortem analysis; biomechanical force; pneumatic pelvic sling VBM®; T-POD®; cloth sling; SAM Sling®; trauma victims; prehospital death; Injury Severity Score (ISS); hemorrhage; shock; resuscitation; coagulopathy; oxygen transport; endotheliopathy; microcirculation; macrocirculation; orthopaedic trauma; nutritional deficiencies; vitamins; lower extremity; wound complications; nutrition wound healing; platelets; immune system; posttraumatic organ failure; posttraumatic lung dysfunction; posttraumatic hyperinflammation; I-FABP; biomarker; intestinal damage; hemorrhagic shock; major trauma
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Trauma is still a leading cause of death in patients below 40 years of age. Clinical management of severely injured patients is challenging in all phases of treatment during the clinical course. Numerous factors, such as injury severity, injury pattern, patient characteristics and trauma system, aff...