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Damage Control in Elderly Polytrauma Patients

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The elderly represent a unique group of trauma patients. How one defines the elderly is an important question. An active, healthy 65-year-old person may be physiologically more fit and better able to tolerate a high energy trauma than a 40-year-old person with multiple medical comorbidities and a sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, a 75-year-old with a history of myocardial infarction, renal failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may not be able to tolerate even a slip-and-fall-type injury. Most studies of trauma in the elderly have used an age of at least 65 years in their definition.

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Cantu, R.V., Koval, K.J. (2010). Damage Control in Elderly Polytrauma Patients. In: Pape, HC., Peitzman, A., Schwab, C.W., Giannoudis, P.V. (eds) Damage Control Management in the Polytrauma Patient. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89508-6_20

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