[Thyrotoxic crisis--a difficult diagnosis in a polytrauma patient--a case report].

It is reported on a multiple injured female patient with severe head injury showing confusion, hyperthermia and tachycardia. These symptoms were relatively late recognized as typical signs of 'thyreotoxic crisis'. Based on this case report the authors want to remind on this disease as a possible complication of surgical and anaesthesiological interventions and they give information how to diagnose this relatively seldom occurring disease in multiple injured intensive care patient.