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Multisystem Trauma: Relevance of the Injury Pattern to the Prognosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

G. Singbartl
G. Singbartl
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Knappschafts-Krankenhaus University Hospital, Ruhr University of Bocum, Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany.
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Although road accidents account for about 17% of hospital emergencies, they are the third commonest cause of death. Polytrauma is the main cause of death below the age of 40 years. Legislative action and safety measures (i.e. speed restriction, safety belts, safety helmets) and improvement in the hospital emergency care system in Germany resulted in a continuous reduction in road accident victims from about 19,000 in 1979 to about 12,000 in 1983. Additionally, the fall in personal injury resulted in savings of about 7,900 DM (US $3,000) in cases of minor injury, 79,000 DM (30,000 US$) in cases of severe injury and about 685,000 DM (280,000 US$) in cases where lives were saved.

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 2: Contributions from the Fouth World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, England May, 1985 , 1987 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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