Severe isolated injuries have a high impact on resource use and mortality:a Dutch nationwide observational study

Purpose: The Berlin poly-trauma definition (BPD) has proven to be a valuable way of identifying patients with at least a 20% risk of mortality, by combining anatomical injury characteristics with the presence of physiological risk factors (PRFs). Severe isolated injuries (SII) are excluded from the BPD. This study describes the characteristics, resource use and outcomes of patients with SII according to their injured body region, and compares them with those included in the BPD. Methods: Data were extracted from the Dutch National Trauma Registry between 2015 and 2019. SII patients were define... Mehr ...