[Changes in the blood coagulation system in patients with mechanical trauma and burns].

A comparative study of the changes in the coagulogram in patients with mechanical trauma and burn cases showed a commonness between the disturbances in the hemostasis in mechanical and thermal trauma expressed in their the same direction and order. At first there was a brief hypocoagulation phase, and this was followed by hypercoagulation due to intensification of the procoagulant activity and depression of fibrinolysis. In patients with burns the changes in the blood coagulation system were more prolonged and sharper, than in the patients with mechanical injury. Coronary disturbances often accompanied hypercoagulation. Pneumonia developing in the patients with both types of the trauma under study intensified hemostatic disturbances.