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Complex Multitrauma Patient: Head, Thorax, Abdomen and Limbs

Introduction: Multiple trauma represents the main cause of death in 40–50 years old patients. It requires a rigorous management of the critical patient to ensure a correct order in the performed maneuvers and a maximum efficiency.
Case report: We report a case of a 27 year-old patient with multiple trauma, victim of a train accident. The patient arrives with the presumptive diagnosis of multiple trauma due to train accident, open acute craniocerebral trauma, suspicion of acute subdural hematoma. After the evaluation in the emergency service, the patient was transferred to the Tîrgu Mureş Surgery Clinic, where an emergency intervention was performed. Any of the lesions presented (abdomen, thorax, extremities and head lesions) were able to produce the patient’s death by themselves.
Conclusions: The survival chances of multiple trauma patients increase due to a rigorous management and the application of a standardized evaluation protocol.

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