Politrauma
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Polytrauma and multiple trauma are medical terms describing the condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries, such as a serious head injury in addition to a serious burn. The term is defined via an Injury Severity Score (ISS) equal to or greater than 16. It has become a commonly applied term by US military physicians in describing the seriously injured soldiers returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The term is generic, however, and has been in use for a long time for any case involving multiple trauma.
Research
53,071 papers- Polytrauma in Children—Epidemiology, Acute Diagnostic Evaluation, and Treatment.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2024
- Polytrauma: The European Paradigm.Chirurgia (Bucharest, Romania : 1990) · 2021
- Managing polytrauma patients.Injury · 2020
- [Polytrauma].Der Internist · 1998
- Polytrauma Considerations.Neurosurgery clinics of North America · 2026
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Article · Italiano
Politrauma o politraumatizzato è definito come "paziente che presenta una o più lesioni traumatiche ad organi o apparati differenti con compromissione attuale o potenziale delle funzioni vitali". È una patologia sempre più comune che causa, secondo gli ultimi dati dell'Organizzazione mondiale della sanità (WHO), il secondo picco di mortalità nell'età compresa tra 5 e 30 anni.
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