The Polytraumatized in the Emergency Hosting Service and the Service of Resuscitation Gabriel Touré Mali

Summary: Polytrauma is the leading cause of death in the under-40 population. They are accompanied by major morbidity with severe sequelae. The polytraumatized is defined as a serious trauma with several bodily injuries, at least one of which is life-threatening in the very short term. The initial hospital care must not barely delay and directly affect the prognosis. In developing countries, the absence of pre-hospital medicine means that mortality is still very high, which leads us to initiate this work, which aims to study the epidemiological and clinical aspects of polytrauma in emergency and in resuscitation of Gabriel Toure University Hospital. Material and Methods: This was a retrospective study that took place over a period of ten (10) months from February to November 2016. We included all patients received for polytrauma emergency hosting service. The data were collected using a surveycard. Results: During our study period, we collected a total of 200 polytraumatized cases out of a total of 16,141 patients admitted to the emergency hosting service, a prevalence of 1.3%. The age group of 20 - 29 years was the most represented with average age of 32.39 years. The male sex was predominant with 65% with a sex ratio of 1.9. The students were the most represented with 24%. The trauma occurred at 22.5% between 8:00 and 12:00 am, the public road was the main place of the trauma with 57.5% of the cases. Two-wheeled vehicles were involved in the accident in 68.9% of cases. The delay between trauma and admission was minus 6 hours in 70.5% of cases, 15.5% had a Glasgow lessthan 8% and 44.5% PAS < 90 mmHg. The polytrauma associated with a cranial + limb and cranial + abdominal were the most represented with respectively 37.5% and 25%. The damage control suegery was performed in 79% of patients. The mortality was 31% and hemorrhagic shock was the most common etiology of these deaths with 51.6%. Conclusion: The polytrauma is clinical situation putting the patients vital prognosis at stake. The haemorrhage is the origin of the student mortality. The installation of rigorous diagnostic system and a pre-hospital medicine will reduce the morbi-mortality.