Does fasciotomy hurt the patients with crush syndrome?
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Does fasciotomy hurt the patients with crush syndrome?
Sir, I read with interest the well-written article in the November 2002 issue entitled ‘Clinical findings in the renal victims of a catastrophic disaster: the Marmara earthquake’ by Sever et al. [1]. The reported findings support the attitude not to undertake fasciotomy unless clear objective indications are present such as increased intracompartmental pressure. Fasciotomies were found to be a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg124