Crush syndrome

The first detailed cases of crush syndrome were described in 1941 in London after victims trapped beneath bombed buildings presented with swollen limbs, hypovolemic shock, dark urine, renal failure, and ultimately perished. The majority of the data and studies on this topic still draw from large dat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emily Lovallo, Alex Koyfman, Mark Foran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-09-01
Series:African Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211419X12000675