[Thanatological analysis of traumatic disease]

The transition of trauma disease to the premortal period represents a qualitative leap of changing pathogenesis into thanatogenesis. Practically it means the appearance of such a condition of the patient which requires urgent measures of treatment directed to the correction of life-threatening alterations of homeostasis. The determination of some pathological process in the clinical picture of trauma disease as a possible direct cause of death presupposes the following prognosis of the type of the terminal condition, mechanism of death with the resulting conclusions concerning organization of curative measures.