ArticleArchives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery2021
Age and traumatic brain injury as prognostic factors for late-phase mortality in patients defined as polytrauma according to the New Berlin Definition: experiences from a level I trauma center.
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- The utilisation of international consensus definitions of the disease polytrauma: a systematic review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026Pooled it
- Early versus late tracheostomy in people with multiple trauma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- 25-Year experience with adult polytraumatized patients in a European level 1 trauma center: polytrauma between 1995 and 2019. What has changed? A retrospective cohort study.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Trial
- Factors Affecting Recovery from Post-Traumatic Amnesia During Inpatient Brain Injury Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Characteristics of Severely Injured Trauma Patients Admitted to a Level I Trauma Center with Pre-Injury Use of Oral Anticoagulation (OAC) or Antiplatelet Therapy (APT).Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Sex-Based Differences in Polytraumatized Patients between 1995 and 2020: Experiences from a Level I Trauma Center.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Early versus late tracheostomy in people with multiple trauma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Red blood cell distribution width and Charlson comorbidity index help to identify frail polytraumatized patients : Experiences from a level I trauma center.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe rationale of this study was to identify independent prognostic factors influencing the late-phase survival of polytraumatized patients defined according to the New Berlin Definition.
methodsRetrospective data analysis on 173 consecutively polytraumatized patients treated at a level I trauma center between January 2012 and December 2015. Patients were classified into two groups: severely injured patients (ISS > 16) and polytraumatized patients (patients who met the diagnostic criteria for the New Berlin Definition).
resultsPolytraumatized patients showed significantly lower late-phase and overall survival rates. The presence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and age > 55 years had a significant influence on the late-phase survival in polytraumatized patients but not in severely injured patients. Despite the percentage of severe TBI being nearly identical in both groups, severe TBI was identified as main cause of death in polytraumatized patients. Furthermore, severe TBI remains the main cause of death in polytraumatized patients > 55 years of age, whereas younger polytraumatized patients (< 55 years of age) tend to die more often due to the acute trauma.
conclusionOur results suggest that age beyond 55 years and concomitant (severe) TBI remain as most important influencing risk factor for the late-phase survival of polytraumatized patients but not in severely injured patients. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Prognostic study, level III.
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