Multiple trauma affects more than one organ system or body region. Injury severity scoring quantifies the aggregate, and treatment requires coordination across specialties.
Interaction among injuries may exceed their individual effects.
Alternative Names:
Multi-System Trauma|Multiple Injuries
Why it Matters?
Attribution across injuries matters where some are causally contested, since a claimant with orthopedic, neurological, and psychological injuries may have preexisting contribution in one system but not others. Separating the damages attributable to each injury permits partial defense where global attribution would not. Injury severity scores from trauma records provide an objective baseline for the aggregate presentation.
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Why separate damages by injury?
What provides an objective baseline?
