Liam Payne‘s official cause of death has been revealed to be “polytrauma” – a term for multiple traumatic injuries that have been sustained to a person’s body and organs, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The One Direction star died after plunging off a balcony in his hotel in Buenos Aires in October.
Payne’s medical cause of death was confirmed after a UK inquest by Dr. Roberto Victor Cohen.
The 31-year-old singer died on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Argentina’s capital.
At a hearing on Wednesday to present the findings, it was revealed Payne was formally identified “with the assistance of the funeral directors in Buckinghamshire, England.”
Senior Coroner Crispin Butler said during the hearing: “Whilst there are ongoing investigations in Argentina into the circumstances of Liam’s death, over which I have no legal jurisdiction, it is anticipated that procuring the relevant information to address particularly how Liam came by his death may take some time through the formal channel of the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.”
According to the National Library of Medicine, Polytrauma is the leading cause of mortality in young adults. Often, it is the result of high-speed car accidents or other events that put severe trauma on a person’s head.
The NLM states: “Trauma-related injuries are a major public health concern due to their associated morbidity, high disability, associated death, and socioeconomic consequences.”
In a military setting, polytrauma is often a result of a blast-related event. Traumatic brain injury also frequently occurs in military polytrauma patients, as well as amputation, burns and spinal cord injuries.