Crush syndrome: Saving more lives in disasters

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 694-696

  Bartal, Carmi ^a,b   Zeller, Lior ^a,b   Miskin, Ian ^a,c   Sebbag, Gilbert ^a,b   Karp, Erez ^a   Grossman, Alon ^a   Engel, Anat ^a   Carter, Dan ^a   Kreiss, Yitshak ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; FUROSEMIDE; INSULIN; POTASSIUM; SALBUTAMOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CRUSH SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; FASCIOTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; NATURAL DISASTER; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEPSIS; URINE VOLUME;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HAITI; HUMANS;

EID: 79955058554     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.122     Document Type: Article

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