The article reflects the urgency of the problem of treatment of patients with poly trauma, the literary review of the basic, general principles of assistance. Today, the quality of care in polytrauma meet high requirements in personnel, operational and organizational attitude. In developed countries the mortality of patients of poly trauma managed to drastically reduce by optimizing rescue and emergency services, the establishment of specialized poly trauma centers, implementation of specific algorithms and concepts assist.
Conclusion. Rendering help is a very difficult task, but due to improvement of work of emergency services, creation of polytrauma centers, cpecial algorithms and concepts for rendering medical care there is a significant decrease of lethality cases— from 40 to 20 % during the past 20 years.