What is considered multi trauma?

What is considered multi trauma?

Multiple trauma means having several serious injuries from something like a fall, an attack, or a crash. The injuries could cause severe bleeding or break large bones. They might include damage to the brain or to organs such as the lungs or spleen.

What does Poly trauma mean?

Polytrauma occurs when a person experiences injuries to multiple body parts and organ systems often, but not always, as a result of blast-related events.

How do you deal with multiple trauma?

What should I do?

1. Give yourself time. It takes time – weeks or months – to accept what has happened and to learn to live with it.
2. Find out what happened.
3. Be involved with other survivors.
4. Ask for support.
5. Take some time for yourself.
6. Talk it over.
7. Get into a routine.
8. Do some ‘normal’ things with other people.

Is polytrauma life threatening?

The VA defines polytrauma as “two or more injuries to physical regions or organ systems, one of which may be life threatening, resulting in physical, cognitive, psychological, or psychosocial impairments and functional disability” (p. 3).

What’s the difference between Polytrauma and multitraumatism?

[Definition of “polytrauma” and “polytraumatism”] Polytrauma (multitrauma) is a short verbal equivalent used for severely injured patients usually with associated injury (i.e. two or more severe injuries in at least two areas of the body), less often with a multiple injury (i.e. two or more severe injuries in one body area).

What is the medical term for multiple trauma?

Multi Trauma (Polytrauma) Polytrauma or multiple trauma is a medical term describing the condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries, such as a serious head injury, multiple fractures in addition to a serious burn, affecting multiple body systems and organs.

When does polytrauma occur in the human body?

Polytrauma occurs when a person experiences injuries to multiple body parts and organ systems often, but not always, as a result of blast-related events.

What kind of neurologic complications do polytrauma patients have?

Even in the absence of primary central or peripheral nervous system injury, polytrauma patients frequently have neurologic complications such as debilitating ischemic stroke, delirium, and critical illness neuropathy and myopathy. This chapter focuses on presentation, diagnosis, and management of these complications,…