[Early toxemia in patients with severe mechanical injuries]

The examination of 2033 patients with severe mechanical injuries has shown that early intoxication takes place in 30.3% of the patients. Patients with blood loss of 35-40% and more, receiving more than 1 l of preserved blood make a group of high risk. Intoxication was more frequent in patients with one localization of injury when it is an injury of extremities or abdomen. In associated injuries the development of intoxication is determined by localization and kind of the main injury and is dependent on association with severe traumas of the extremities and abdomen.