[Terminology and definition of the main concepts in the surgery of injuries]

Based upon the 20-years experience of the clinic of field surgery of the Military Medical Academy with treatment of critical mechanical injuries the authors propose to differentiate concepts "injury" and "trauma" and hence the ideas of "severity of injury", "severity of the state" and "severity of trauma". It is expedient to use concepts of "isolated", "multiple", "associated" traumas instead of non concrete ideas of "polytrauma" which is correct but for determination of critical associated traumas. Definitions of such concepts as "consequences of trauma" and "complications of trauma", "trauma disease" and "trauma shock" are given.