Coagulopathy in multiple traumas.

Background: This study aimed at analyzing the effect on coagulation of head trauma and other local traumas in patients exposed to multiple traumas in the early stage, and also the relations of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS) with coagulation parameters in these patients.

Methods: Fifty consecutive patients (9 women, 41 men) with multiple traumas were included in this study. The GCS, ISS and coagulation parameter levels were measured. Presence of a correlation between GCS and ISS with coagulation parameters was analyzed. Patients exposed to multiple traumas were assessed in four categories as the patients with no significant traumas (A), only head traumas (B), head trauma and other local traumas (c), and no head traumas but other local traumas (D).

Results: A marked relationship was found between ISS and international normalized ratio (INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), D-dimer, fibrin degradation product (FDP), antithrombin (AT), and fibrinogen (p<0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between Group C and the other groups in INR, D-dimer, fibrinogen, aPTT, and AT parameters (p<0.05). There was also a statistically significant difference between the groups with and without head trauma in INR, D-dimer and fibrinogen (p<0.05).

Conclusion: The coagulation parameters were observed to diverge in patients with head trauma, but in cases with head injuries accompanying other local traumas, more coagulation parameters became abnormal.