polytrauma

Though the average stay in polytrauma centers is 40 days, many patients remain for months and some for more than a year.

Watch a video to learn more about how VA research into the impact of polytrauma on families.

Currently there are plans to expanded specialty clinic area and Polytrauma Center.

Other factors for a higher level can be damage to the muscles, epileptic seizures, polytrauma.

With the advent of advanced procedures and medical technology, even polytrauma can be survivable in modern wars.

These multiple complex injuries are called polytrauma.

The treatment and rehabilitative care for polytrauma patients is a very extensive and time-consuming activity.

VA is building a fifth polytrauma center in San Antonio.

In addition the Department of Veterans Affairs has 18 polytrauma network sites, located throughout the country.

Pulmonary contusion is thought to be the direct cause of death in a quarter to a half of people with polytrauma who die.

The polytrauma centers, Ms. Connors said, are "pretty good."

An estimated 0.5% of polytrauma patients treated in trauma centers have TBI.

There are currently four rehabilitation centers in the US specialising in polytrauma (as of 2010).

A major trauma (or polytrauma) is defined as the Injury Severity Score being greater than 15.

Initially established as TBI clinics in the early 1990s, these sites now provide comprehensive care for polytrauma.

Plans for an inpatient substance abuse treatment program, a teleretinal unit, and a polytrauma unit are underway.

To describe the maimed survivors of this ugly new war, a graceless new word, polytrauma, has entered the medical lexicon.

It is noteworthy that blast injuries usually manifest in a form of polytrauma, i.e. injury involving multiple organs or organ systems.

ECMO can be effective in treating some polytrauma patients with pulmonary or cardiopulmonary failure.

Each soldier arriving at Tampa's Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center, inside the giant veterans hospital, brings a whole world of injury.

To understand why this is so we need to return to the polytrauma theory outlined earlier and see what its significance is for the development of the modern individual.

The textbook is first and foremost devoted to the acute management of the polytrauma (blast, burns, and high-velocity penetrating injuries) unique to the modern battlefield.

One study found that ten percent of polytrauma patients who had no clinical signs of abdominal injury did have evidence of the such injuries using radiological imaging.

Center of polytrauma, thoracal center (KCCH No 17)

Those needing the most intensive care are treated at one of VA's four main polytrauma centers, in Minneapolis, Tampa, Richmond, and Palo Alto.