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The prehospital care and treatment of severely injured, polytraumatized patients are an essential, above all, first step in the treatment chain after a corresponding and relevant accident event.

Various concepts can be applied here, a reduced, but all targeted treatment and initiation of measures to remedy the most important problems and disorders appears sensible and necessary, furthermore, however, the prompt and speedy transport to a suitable hospital must not be significantly delayed. Thus, a treatment strategy in the sense of a “treat and go”- concept can be recommended, considering the principles of the Pre- Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS®).

The present chapter presents the essential principles and deals with individual body regions. In doing so, the article refers to current literature and, above all, to the recognized S3 guideline on polytrauma / treatment of severely injured patients of the German Trauma Society.

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  • 12 November 2022

    The original version of this chapter was published with errors; the authors’ surnames and forenames are inadvertently swapped. The names have been updated with this erratum. Further, the affiliations are also updated. The correct names and affiliations are given below:

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Reconstructive and Septic Surgery, Sportstraumatology, German Armed Forces Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Gerhard Achatz & Benedikt Friemert

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, German Armed Forces Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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Achatz, G., Hossfeld, B., Friemert, B. (2022). Preclinical Management/Rescue. 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_5

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