Complex extrication and crush injury.
An unusual motor vehicle collision case is presented involving a complex, prolonged extrication with crush injury. While crush injury and crush syndrome are often considered to be in the realm of disaster medicine and urban search and rescue, more typical single-patient or few-patient incidents such as industrial accidents and vehicular crashes can involve these clinical entities. All emergency medical services (EMS) personnel should have a basic working familiarity with the operational and clinical issues involved in crush injury and crush syndrome. Crush syndrome is reviewed here from the perspective of prehospital management.
Burns
Kevin
K
Section of EMS, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. kevin.burns@yale.edu
Cone
David C
DC
Portereiko
Joseph V
JV
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D003444:Crush Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D018635:Rescue Work; D016896:Treatment Outcome