Changing Epidemiology of Polytrauma

We previously reported the epidemiology, aetiology, injury patterns and outcomes of polytrauma from the largest European Trauma Registry over the 1989-2003 time period. Polytrauma was identfied as a disease of young males predominately caused by road traffic collisions and characterised by traumatic brain and skeletal injury. We report a more current (2008–13) large series of from the same registry and show how polytrauma patient demographics, aetiology and outcomes have changed dramatically in the intervening decade.