title: Preventable deaths in multiple trauma: review of deaths at Sunnybrook Medical Centre Trauma Unit.
abstract: One hundred and two patients, who have died of multiple injuries and on whom an autopsy was performed, have been reviewed. Injury severity was a major factor in the outcome and head injury played a definite role in more than half of the deaths. Missed diagnosis was not a major factor in the deaths. Future improvements will most likely be in the management of hemorrhage in patients with multiple injuries.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007928:Lethal Dose 50; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D014193:Trauma Centers; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000401:mortality*