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Polytrauma Scoring

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The aim to minimize mortality rates in polytrauma led to numerous investigations, calculations, and scoring systems to describe the individual patient risk. Patients react differently to the same injury. This reaction depends on the physiologic state, comorbidities, age, and numerous other factors. Several scoring systems aim to quantify the injury severity, the trauma load, and the physiologic response. In general, these scoring systems focus either on anatomic injury distribution, physiologic parameter, radiologic measures, or on any combination of the above. Some scores developed treatment recommendations, other sever for research purposes only. This chapter offers a detailed summary of definitions and scores in the initial assessment of polytrauma patients. It aims to highlighting strengths and limitations and discusses the complexity of defining polytrauma.

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    Sascha Halvachizadeh & Hans-Christoph Pape

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  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine, The University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

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  3. Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA

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    Philip F. Stahel

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Halvachizadeh, S., Pape, HC. (2022). Polytrauma Scoring. In: Pape, HC., Borrelli Jr., J., Moore, E.E., Pfeifer, R., Stahel, P.F. (eds) Textbook of Polytrauma Management . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95906-7_13

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