Preventable deaths in multiple trauma: review of deaths at Sunnybrook Medical Centre Trauma Unit
Wright, C.S.; McMurtry, R.Y.; Hoyle, M.; Pickard, J.
Canadian Journal of Surgery. Journal Canadien de Chirurgie 26(1): 20-23
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-428X PMID: 6821755 Document Number: 200087
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.