Management of severe crush injury in a front-line tent ICU after 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China: An experience with 32 cases

Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Li, Wenfang ^a   Qian, Jun ^b   Liu, Xuefen ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Wang, Lv ^a   Chen, Dechang ^a   Lin, Zhaofen ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Intensive Care Unit   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHINA; CRUSH SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEG INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARM INJURIES; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHINA; CRUSH SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LEG INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951634259     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8160     Document Type: Article

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