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Damage following accidents is treated in the specialty of trauma surgery.

This includes injuries to the musculoskeletal system, the internal organs or soft tissues. A distinction is made between three levels: with monotrauma, non-life-threatening individual injuries are present. Barytrauma includes serious individual injuries (e.g. skull and brain trauma or amputations) which are life-threatening. Polytrauma involves multiple injuries that can lead to dangerous complications.

Medical specialities

Bone deformities
Intensive care medicine
Pelvis and hip injuries
Polytrauma
Pseudoarthrosis
Spinal injuries
Traumatic brain injury