Polytraumatized Patient - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Jul 3, 2023 · Polytrauma is when a patient has sustained multiple injuries, some of which may cause significant disability and may be life-threatening. Worldwide the most common cause of polytrauma is motor vehicle accidents; other causes include suicide and homicide attempts.
What is Polytrauma? - Polytrauma/TBI System of Care
Jun 3, 2015 · The hallmark of care for polytrauma is a patient-centered, interdisciplinary approach that works with the injured individual and his or her family to address all aspects of the injury as it impacts the person’s life.
Polytrauma/TBI System of Care Home
Dec 13, 2022 · What is Polytrauma? When TBI is associated with a significant secondary injury (amputation, burn, fractures) or with mental health conditions (post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, substance use), the resulting “polytrauma” can have devastating effects that compound those seen in TBI alone.
Polytrauma: update on basic science and clinical evidence
The management of polytrauma patients with orthopaedic injuries is a complex and dynamic process that requires a robust understanding of the pathophysiology of the response to trauma and indicators of patient status.
Risks in the Management of Polytrauma Patients: Clinical Insights
This review article provides an insight into the management of polytrauma patients from a team approach perspective with a focus on the risks involved at each stage, provides early recognition and suggests effective treatment of these to improve patient-related outcomes.
The polytrauma patient: Current concepts and evolving care
Polytrauma patients often have severe soft tissue injuries as well as many other challenges that make infection and wound healing challenges a major problem. NPWT has become a key weapon in the battle to overcome these.
Evaluation of the polytrauma patient • Primary Survey – Airway • Establishment of an airway with regard for associated cervical spine injury • Clinical evaluation for obstruction – Facial fractures, mandible fractures, laryngeal or tracheal injury, aspiration, foreign body
Polytrauma management - What is new and what is true in 2020
To our knowledge, the term ‘polytrauma’ was first used by Tscherne et al., in 1966 for patients that demonstrated a combination of at least 2 ‘severe injuries of the head, chest or abdomen’, or ‘one of them in association with an extremity injury’. 4 In 1975, Border et al. defined the polytraumatized patient “as any patient with ...
Polytrauma: definition, management, stable and unstable patient
Apr 5, 2023 · With “polytrauma” or “polytraumatized” in medicine we mean by definition an injured patient who presents associated injuries to two or more parts of the body (skull, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, limbs) with current or potential impairment of the functions vital (respiratory and/or circulatory)
Management of the Polytrauma Patient | SpringerLink
Jan 1, 2014 · Polytrauma patient or multiple injured patient is defined as one that has injuries in two or more organs, systems, or cavities of the body that jeopardized the patient’s life.
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