ALCOHOLISM IS A BLIGHT WHICH IMPLICATES NUMEROUS AREAS. POLYTRAUMA REQUIRES A SOMETIMES LONG AND EXPENSIVE HOSPITALIZATION, WITH A MORTALITY OF APPROXIMATELY ONE IN THREE. IN 250 PATIENTS (THE MEAN ISS IS THE SAME FOR PATIENTS WHO DIED, WHETHER NONALCOHOLICS, CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS, OR OCCASIONAL DRINKERS), THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MORTALITY RATE OF TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE DRIVERS AND THE MORTALITY RATE OF THE LIGHT VEHICLE DRIVERS. THE RISKS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AMONGST ALCOHOLICS INCREASED FOR CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS (60 PERCENT) REGARDLESS OF SEX OR AGE DIFFERENCES. MORTALITY OF OCCASIONAL DRINKERS WAS 13.3 PERCENT, 51 PERCENT OF THE OFFENDERS WERE CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS. CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM IN POLYTRAUMATOLOGY APPEARS TO BE A SERIOUS ELEMENT SINCE 59 PERCENT OF MULTIPLE INJURED PATIENTS HAD GLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION GREATER THAN 1.20 GM/L, 65 PERCENT GREATER THAN 0.80 GM/L, AND 70 PERCENT GREATER THAN 0.50 GM/L. (Secondary source).
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