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General & SystemicSevere
Polytrauma
Emergency Medicine · General & Systemic
Severe
Severity
Common in trauma settings — a leading cause of death and disability in people under 45 worldwide
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Emergency Medicine
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Polytrauma most commonly results from high-energy mechanisms of injury
- 2including motor vehicle collisions
- 3falls from significant height
- 4industrial or workplace accidents
- 5and blast or gunshot injuries
- 6all of which transmit enough force to damage multiple organ systems simultaneously. The extent and combination of injuries depend on the mechanism
- 7direction
- 8and magnitude of the force involved. Certain populations
- 9such as motorcyclists and pedestrians involved in vehicle collisions
- 10are at particularly high risk of sustaining polytrauma.
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