[Resuscitation operations in patients with multiple injuries]

The authors analyze a group of 15 patients with polytrauma during a 4-year period. The patients had the clinical signs of severe bleeding. Despite the complex resuscitation care, the patients died due to consequences of haemorrhagic shock already during the operation or very soon after operation. All patients were after initial resuscitation and diagnostic procedures (apparatus breathing, aggressive volumotherapy, proved continuous bleeding) performed for the use of further resuscitation actions, namely surgical control and stoppage of bleeding, surgical indications. This pathophysiological consideration is reflected also in the title of this study. The study further discusses the modern injury conception of resuscitation at a operating theatre which in frame of surgical intervention attempts to achieve homeostasis. At the same time, the surgical approach frequently must prefer the methods which enable the physiological stability on the behalf of incomplete solution of post-traumatic anatomic integrity. The definite solution can be possibly performed by subsequent operation. (Ref. 5.)