Table 1 List of included patients.
From: Clinical diagnosis versus autopsy findings in polytrauma fatalities
no | sex | age | mechanism of polytrauma | ISS | survival time (hh:mm/days if appropriate) | cause of death (clinically) | cause of death (autoptically) | congruent? | CPR | marginal difference | obvious difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | f | 41 | traffic accident (car) | 51 | 2:43 | thorax trauma | thorax trauma | yes | - | - | - |
2 | f | 24 | homicidal stab attack | 75 | 1:00 | hemorrhagic shock due to multiple thoracal stab wounds | fatal bleeding due to multiple thoracal stab wounds, bilateral hematopneumothorax | no - bilateral hematopneumothorax? | + | + | - |
3 | m | 46 | traffic accident (car) | 34 | 2:15 | hemorrhagic shock due to liver rupture, thorax trauma, contusio cordis | thorax trauma, exsanguination from liver rupture | yes | - | - | - |
4 | m | 48 | traffic accident (car) | 50 | 184 days | MOF/lung artery embolism | MOF | no - lung artery embolism? | - | + | - |
5 | f | 75 | traffic accident (cyclist) | 38 | 15 days | sTBI | sTBI | yes | - | - | - |
6 | m | 49 | fall from height | 54 | 9:35 | sTBI | sTBI | yes | - | - | - |
7 | m | 27 | traffic accident (car) | 59 | 2:50 | sTBI, lung failure, hemorrhagic shock, thorax trauma | sTBI, bilateral lung contusion, pelvic trauma | no - pelvic trauma ? | - | - | + |
8 | m | 72 | traffic accident (pedestrian) | 43 | 2:46 | thorax trauma, heart contusion, hemorrhagic shock | thorax trauma, pericardial tamponade | no - pericardial tamponade? | + | - | + |
9 | m | 49 | traffic accident (cyclist) | 43 | 9 days | sTBI | sTBI - explanted | yes - explanted | - | - | - |
10 | m | 45 | train overrun | 75 | 2:22 | sTBI/hemorrhagic shock from Sinus sagittalis superior bleeding | sTBI | no - hemorrhagic shock? | - | + | - |
11 | m | 36 | fall from height | 38 | 20:07 | sTBI | sTBI | yes | - | - | - |
12 | m | 49 | work place accident | 75 | 2:10 | blunt thoraco-abdominopelvic trauma | fatal bleeding due to pelvic trauma | no - pelvic trauma? | + | - | + |
13 | m | 41 | traffic accident (cyclist) | 41 | 1:40 | sTBI, blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma | sTBI, blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma | yes | - | - | - |
14 | m | 84 | fall from height | 33 | 5 days | sTBI | sTBI | yes | - | - | - |
15 | m | 57 | fall from height | 45 | 7:15 | blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma | blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma | yes | - | - | - |
16 | m | 33 | traffic accident (cyclist) | 75 | 1:10 | aortic rupture | aortic rupture | yes | + | - | - |
17 | m | 45 | traffic accident (cyclist) | 75 | 6 days | sTBI | sTBI - explantated | yes - explanted | - | - | - |
18 | m | 76 | traffic accident (pedestrian) | 43 | 7:46 | sTBI | sTBI | yes | - | - | - |
19 | m | 95 | fall from height | 41 | 21 days | lung artery embolism | lung artery embolism | yes | - | - | - |