O13: Crush Syndrome

o13: crush syndrome

life in the modern world means existing with the evolving face of modern warfare and global terrorism. we have disasters both man-made disasters, natural. man has devised weapons of mass destruction, which in the hands urban terrorists can cause blasts, building collapses. resulting in a unique pattern of damage to the human body namely, crush injuries “crush syndrome” first recorded in bombing...

Double Crush Syndrome.

Double crush syndrome is a distinct compression at two or more locations along the course of a peripheral nerve that can coexist and synergistically increase symptom intensity. In addition, dissatisfaction after treatment at one site may be the result of persistent pathology at another site along a peripheral nerve. Double crush syndrome is a controversial diagnosis; some scientists and surgeon...

Consensus statement on crush injury and crush syndrome.

Crush syndrome remains rare in European practice. It is, however, common in areas of civil disorder and where the normal structures of society have given way to civil war or natural disaster. Western doctors are becoming increasingly involved in such situations and there is no reason to believe that instances due to more conventional causes, such as collapse in the elderly or road traffic accid...

Crush injury and crush syndrome: a consensus statement.

Crush syndrome remains rare in European practice but is common in areas of civil disorder and where society has given way to civil war or natural disaster. Clinicians in the west are becoming increasingly involved in such situations and there is no reason to believe that the few instances due to conventional causes, such as an elderly person collapsing or road traffic accidents, will cease. The...

Crush syndrome after isolated abdominal crush injury in flood water.

crush injury &compartment syndrome

crush injury of an extremity occurs when a limb is compressed between two hard surfaces, to the point where vascular supply is impaired and vulnerable tissues undergo necrosis. most commonly, limbs are crushed during auto versus pedestrian accidents, motor vehicle crashes, and industrial accidents. however, during natural disasters such as earthquakes, buildings collapse, landslides, mine cave-...