Optimal times for interventions for multitrauma burn patients

This figure depicts the optimal times for intervention in competing types of injury - penetrating, blunt, and burn. The priority of intervention changes over time (hours) and should be sequential.
Penetrating injuries are best evaluated and addressed immediately. In the following minutes and/or hours, blunt injuries associated with thoracic or abdominal organs should be addressed. Cutaneous burns are the last priority and management can be initiated in the hours following stabilization and management of penetrating and blunt injuries.