Traumatology

The Traumatology (Greek τραυματολογία, trawmatolojía - the traumatology ) is the science of the injuries and wounds as well as their development and therapy.

She sits down in the form of trauma surgery as a subspecialty designation of the surgery with the supply accident injured patients apart. In almost all countries except Germany and Austria trauma has long been part of orthopedics. The trauma is concerned with both the treatment of minor and major injuries and the treatment of the so-called polytrauma. The trauma is defined as the happened several simultaneously injuries of different parts of the body, at least one injury or combination of injuries is life threatening.

Also in Legal Medicine traumatology is often important, even in homicide or bodily injury ( then they are called victimology - the victims customer ), but also in accident insurance law expertise eg on accidents at work with autopsy of the deceased insured professional cooperative.

The amendments of the continuing education for physicians trauma was established in its internationally recognized form from 2005 in the new orthopedics and trauma surgery in Germany.