crush syndrome

Too much time has now passed and Hanna is at severe risk for crush syndrome.

Common concerns after an injury of this type are rhabdomyolysis and crush syndrome.

In 1923, he first reported crush syndrome while he was studying in Germany.

Seigo Minami reported Crush syndrome for the first time in the world.

Some had been conscious and lucid, talking to rescuers, but died of crush syndrome soon after the weight was removed from their bodies.

Seigo Minami, a Japanese physician, first reported the crush syndrome in 1923.

Crush syndrome may also cause reperfusion injury when blood flow to decompressed muscle is suddenly restored.

Compartment syndrome can be secondary to crush syndrome.

Crush Syndrome is a very bad health condition where major shock and renal failure happen because of the skeletal muscles being crushed.

He studied pathology under Professor Pick in Berlin and published a paper which was the first report on crush syndrome.

"Ever heard of crush syndrome?"

In victims of crush syndrome it is recommended to administer intravenous fluids even before they are extracted from collapsed structures.

Tissue destruction, which can occur in hemolysis, surgery, infarction, crush syndrome, rhabdomyolysis, cerebral hemorrhage, etc.

This work later evolved into research on Crush syndrome and saved the lives of thousands of soldiers on the battlefields of World War II.

Crush syndrome (also traumatic rhabdomyolysis or Bywaters' syndrome) is a medical condition characterized by major shock and renal failure after a crushing injury to skeletal muscle.

With the hospitals destroyed, and their limited knowledge of the care requirements, the Soviets were not well-equipped to deal with the cases of crush syndrome (trauma associated with building collapses).

In 1997 the society formed a task force to provide emergency dialysis services in areas struck by disasters (usually earthquakes), where numerous victims may develop acute renal failure due to crush syndrome.

Due to the risk of crush syndrome, current recommendation to lay first-aiders (in the UK) is to not release victims of crush injury who have been trapped for more than 15 minutes.

The El Al charter was organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, bringing 49 amputees and 12 patients with multiple fractures known as "crush syndrome" to Israel for treatment.

I was giving a patient with crush syndrome an IV, when Crane came rushing in with Dr. King and ordered me and the men on the lever to get down to the docks.

Even if it is possible to extricate the patient without amputation, appropriate physiological preparation is mandatory: where permissive hypotension is the standard for prehospital care, fluid loading is the requirement in crush syndrome.

Peeling off layers of gear at the mouth of the tunnel, Lt. Goyenechea said he had been practicing the prevention of "crush syndrome," which causes people to die days after they have been removed from a structural collapse.

The presence of myoglobin in place of haemoglobin can be caused by pathologies associated with muscular damage (rhabdomyolysis), such as trauma, crush syndrome, prolonged coma, convulsions, progressive muscular atrophy, alcoholism, heroin abuse and strenuous physical activity.

Crush injury is compression of extremities or other parts of the body that causes muscle swelling and/or neurological disturbances in the affected areas of the body, while crush syndrome is localized crush injury with systemic manifestations.

UPDATED: After an Earthquake: Management of Crush Injuries & Crush Syndrome Crush injury and crush syndrome may result from structural collapse during an earthquake.