SEVERE CRUSHING INJURIES TO THE KNEE JOINT

Injuries of the Knee Joint

Injuries of the Knee Joint

Complicated crushing injuries of the pelvis.

In the last two years we have seen seventy-five cases of pelvic girdle injuries with soft-tissue complications in patients admitted to the hospitals serving the African population of Johannesburg and its environs. These injuries had been caused by motor vehicle accidents, railway accidents, falls from heights, and assaults. Twenty of the patients died from their injuries, eight of them within f...

Crushing injuries to the skull; clinical and experimental observations.

Severe crushing injuries of the head are often fatal, but in those patients who survive this form of injury the absence or slight degree of concussion is usually a striking feature of the clinical picture. Even though the skull may be fractured and the cranial nerves injured, the patient often remains fully conscious. This clinical observation led one of us (W.R.R.). with Denny-Brown (1941) to ...

Intermittent positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of severe crushing injuries of the chest.

Chest injuries causing respiratory failure have been treated in an intensive care unit during the last three years. Tracheostomy and mechanical ventilation combined with adequate metabolic care have proved effective therapy, and mechanical fixation has not been necessary. Patients were admitted from the casualty department or were referred by the consultants in charge of them from other wards a...