**2. Investigate the significance of liver trauma and prognostic factors in severely injured patients**

Based on an analysis of the trauma registry data from the German Society of Trauma Surgery (DGU) [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie] from 1993 to 2005 (n=24,711), the present study examined whether the participating liver injury in a polytraumatized patient superproportionally increases the incidence of sepsis and multi-organ failure, and whether survival after polytrauma is definitively decreased when the liver is involved.
