Preventable deaths in multiple trauma: review of deaths at Sunnybrook Medical Centre Trauma Unit.

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • Vol. 26  (1) , 20-3
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.

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