Abstract Introduction Secondary survey is a key aspect of the ATLS guidelines in avoiding missed injuries polytrauma patients. Aim: Evaluate documentation secondary cases admitted to RIE A+E department. Method Standard audit protocol, retrospective data collection. Polytrauma patients and requiring Trauma CT were identified from local trauma database. Primary outcome was successful completion s...

Introduction. Severe polytrauma is the most common cause of deaths in children, but there are currently no objective criteria for predicting outcome severe pediatric ICU patients and identifying a high-risk group. Objectives study to identify features clinical laboratory status intensive care measures children with polytrauma, which determine critical condition. Materials methods. Design: A ret...

Henry L. Lew, MD, PhD; David X. Cifu, MD; Tamara Crowder, PhD; COL Sidney R. Hinds, MD Improvements in protective body armor technology in the past decade, combined with advances in emergency and intensive care medicine, have saved countless lives from battlefield injury [1–4]. Survivors of military conflicts often present with a constellation of injuries, recently described as “polytrauma” by ...