[Pelvic bone fractures in middle-aged and old persons].

Patients having pelvic fractures make 5% of all patients over 60 years of age with bone fractures. Transport traumas (traffic accidents) are predominating. Of 63 persons shock of a different degree due to massive intratissue blood loss was observed in 17. Three objects from this group died as a result of uncompensated shock (1) and septic complications (2). Forty six patients were admitted in a satisfactory condition, three of them died from concomitant complications (pneumonia, diabetic coma).