Crush syndrome patients after the Marmara earthquake

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-250

  Demirkiran, Oktay ^a   Dikmen, Yalim ^a   Utku, Tughan ^a   Urkmez, Seval ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AMPUTATION; APPENDICITIS; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRUSH SYNDROME; CRUSH TRAUMA; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LEG INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OLIGURIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SKULL FRACTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX INJURY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0037505694     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.3.247     Document Type: Article

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