Assessment of trauma patients

Trauma is a major cause of global mortality and morbidity, with significant differences between low-income countries (LIC) and middle-income countries and high-income countries (HMIC). The way of trauma varies from all over the world, but the most important reasons are pedestrians, cars and road traffic. It is necessary to manage injured patients properly and timely. The first part of this article explains the etiology and population distribution of global trauma and the second part of this article provides information on the structural assessment and management of trauma patients.

In this article, we describe the difficulties normally associated with aged trauma, emphasizing the evaluation of epidemiology and age-related trauma. Trauma patients over the age of 65 years have many unique features such as comorbidities, medication, physiology due to age, so there is little data-based decision making. Over the past two decades, the population of the elderly in the United States has steadily increased and is expected to continue this trend. Each patient's performance will be different, but it is always necessary to use standard guidelines to help care for elderly patients, especially patients not receiving treatment at the trauma center. This review uses a case study of elderly women with multiple comorbidities, following a comprehensive discussion of old age trauma and following the issue of lack of direct management guidance.

There are limited data to guide healthcare providers in classifying decisions on elderly trauma patients. Therefore, elderly patients should be examined as much as possible at the trauma center (Caterino, Valasek, & Werman, 2010). The data leading to the Advanced Atlas Life Support (ATLS) course at the American Surgery College is based on information from the mid-1980s (Caterino et al., 2010). Past and present senile trauma guidelines did not include new emerging data on elderly patient care and outcomes (Calland et al., 2012). Guidelines for improving the mortality and prognosis of elderly patients must be used to guide the care of these patients. The urgent question in the current dialogue is how old is to make trauma patients "older trauma" (Kozar et al., 2015).