DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PELVIC FRACTURES
In the context of modern urbanization as worldwide, and in Russia, emergencies do not tend to decrease in numbers. Uprising traffic flow and growing number of road accidents result in increase of severe injuries, including combined injuries. As well as that, there is an increasing rate of pelvic injuries in the whole structure of trauma events. Date analysis of structure of polytrauma shows. that pelvic damage observed in 17–39 % of cases. Despite such frequent verification of injuries of the pelvis, conservative and surgical treatment of this disease does not always lead to positive results. Mortality in combined injuries of the pelvis is maintained at 80 %. Among patients who had pelvic trauma up to 50 % are disabled. A literature review on the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic fractures gives to specialists, dealing with this issue, the modern classification of pelvic fractures along with the standards of examination, treatment, principles of medical evacuation and optimization of medical help orientated on patients with pelvic ring fractures. This literature review helps to orient in this issue up to date.