HIGHLIGHTS
- What: The authors evaluated the association of trauma classification with long-term outcome in blunt-trauma patients. The authors sought to evaluate the differences in long-term mortality beyond Utstein`s 30-day criteria of different trauma classifications, including all severely injured trauma patients (NISS > 15), severely injured patients with AIS ≥ 3 on two different body regions (polytrauma), polytrauma patients by Berlin definition (polytrauma and a physiological criteria), and non-polytrauma patients. The authors identified an annual mortality of 1.8% in the extremities group of the non-polytrauma group.
- Who: Joonas Kuorikoski and colleagues . . .
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