TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Multiple trauma in pediatric patients
JO  - Pediatric surgery international
A1  - Schalamon, Johannes
A1  - von  Bismarck, Sylvester
A1  - Schober, Peter H.
A1  - Höllwarth, Michael E.
SP  - 417
EP  - 423
VL  - 19
IS  - 6
N2  - We analyzed the causes and diagnoses, the treatment, short and long-term outcome of a consecutive series of 70 pediatric polytrauma patients. From 1989 to 1996, 70 children (aged 10 months to 16 years, mean 7.4 years) presented with multiple trauma. A follow-up investigation was performed 4.2 years (mean) after the accident. Traffic accidents (68%) were the leading cause of injuries. Among all injuries (mean ISS 24.6 range 17-57), injuries of the head/neck area were most frequent (87%) followed by extremity fractures (76%) and 135 operations were performed on 55 children, mostly for fracture stabilisation. All multiple injured children survived. At discharge 25 children were still impaired (36% of 70). At follow-up 58 patients were revisited, 11 (19% of 58) presented with impairments, 8 of those (73% of 11) following severe head trauma. This study showed a 10% rate of late impairment due to the severity of the primary head trauma.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0179-0358
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00383-003-0954-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -