title: [Pelvic injuries in the polytraumatized patient].
abstract: Pelvic injuries represent a thorny and stubborn therapeutic challenge. Because major forces are required to fracture the pelvis, pelvic ring disruption, more than any other fracture, can lead to life-threatening associated injuries such as massive bleeding, organ injuries, and open fractures including hemipelvectomy. The rapid diagnosis and effective treatment ("damage control") of those injuries play the key role in the patient's survival, inasmuch as the mortality of multiply injured patients with pelvic ring disruption remains high with 20-35%. Exsanguinating hemorrhage represents the most dreaded acute complication of pelvic injuries. Therefore, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have to be primarily adapted to the hemodynamics of the patient, secondarily to injuries of the brain and the torso. The time point and the techniques of definitive pelvic ring stabilization may be different in the patient with multiple injuries compared to isolated pelvic ring injuries.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für spezielle Chirurgie des Bewegungsapparates, Klinik für Unfall- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany. thilo.john@charite.de
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ertel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D000792:Angiography; D016267:External Fixators; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures; D009989:Orthotic Devices; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000293:injuries*; D011379:Prognosis; D012446:Sacroiliac Joint / Q000293:injuries; D012447:Sacrum / Q000293:injuries; D012774:Shock, Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome