@article{ref1,
title="Severe Polytrauma with an ISS ≥ 50",
journal="Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie",
year="2012",
author="Wurm, S. and Rose, M. and von Rüden, C. and Woltmann, Alexander and Bühren, V.",
volume="150",
number="3",
pages="296-301",
abstract="In Germany 427,500 persons per year are injured in traffic accidents. So we analysed in a retrospective study the post-traumatic quality of life of patients suffering from a severe trauma (ISS ≥ 50). Highlights of interest were: (i) pattern of injury, (ii) injured part of the body, (iii) days in ICU, (iv) outcome, (v) actual state of health, (vi) mental health. Between 1/2000 and 12/2005, 1,435 patients with multiple trauma were hospitalised in the Trauma Center Murnau. 88 suffered from a severe trauma with ISS ≥ 50. 23 % of these patients had a good outcome and 36 % died. Actually, more than half of the patients were physically handicapped or suffered from pain. 41 % showed characteristics typical for a post-traumatic stress disorder. In conclusion the patients with severe trauma had a good survival rate, but they showed a poor post-traumatic quality of life. Thus, in the time after trauma it is important to treat the &quot;whole patient&quot; and not only the physical lesions.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="1864-6697",
doi="10.1055/s-0031-1280415",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1280415"
}