title: [Treatment of polytrauma in the intensive care unit].
abstract: The treatment of severely injured trauma patients (polytrauma) is one of the outstanding challenges in medical care. Early in the initial course the patient's diagnostics have to be scrupulously reevaluated by an interdisciplinary team (tertiary trauma survey) to reduce deleterious sequelae of missed injuries after the initial assessment. Severely injured patients stay in intensive care for an average of 11 days. During this time the patient's therapy has to ensure a high quality evidence-based intensive care treatment and simultaneously has to be tailored to the current individual injuries. Because of the fact that the damage control strategy is gaining increasing acceptance, the intensive care unit plays a pivotal role in the critical time between emergency and elective surgery. Therefore a close cooperation between physicians of the intensive care unit and all surgical disciplines involved is essential to reach the aim of therapeutic efforts. After survival of emergency treatment patients with severe trauma should be reintegrated into social and occupational life as soon as possible.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Anaesthesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Universitätsklinikum Giessen und Marburg, Standort Giessen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Szalay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirschburger
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Röhrig
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dictus
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wurmb
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Weigand
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bernhard
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000628:therapy; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003128:Coma / Q000139:chemically induced; D003422:Critical Care; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000517:prevention & control; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D009141:Musculoskeletal System / Q000293:injuries; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000628:therapy; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000517:prevention & control