Rehabilitation after polytrauma : Definitions and treatment approaches

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Francesca von Matthey, Peter Biberthaler

Abstract

After initial resuscitation and surgical reconstruction of structural damages, the functional rehabilitation is one of the critical columns of polytraumatized patient management. This programme starts as early as the initial therapy in the trauma bay and proceeds until socio-professional reintegration of the patient into his pre-traumatic environment.Thus, three phases of a rehabilitation were identified: the early rehabilitation, the post-acute rehabilitation and the continuative rehabilitation.Since the mortality after major trauma is continuously decreasing, the life quality of trauma victims came more and more into the focus of the actual scientific discussion. To improve this life quality, several rehabilitation programmes were developed and varius instruments were developed to quantify outcome results, such as the GOS or the SF-36, respectively.The aim of this review is to describe these various programmes and instruments, to improve the individual rehabilitation process for polytraumatized patients.

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