Infections in crush syndrome: A retrospective observational study after the Wenchuan earthquake

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-17

  Chen, Xiaolei ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Fu, Ping ^a   Hu, Zhangxue ^a   Qin, Wei ^a   Tao, Ye ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; QUINOLONE;

ACCIDENT; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CRUSH SYNDROME; DEMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CRUSH SYNDROME; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751516887     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.077859     Document Type: Article

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