Recommendations for the management of crush victims in mass disasters: Short field version

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 1-79

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Author keywords

acute kidney injury; Crush syndrome; disaster victims; European Renal Best Practice; logistics, renal replacement therapy; M decins Sans Fronti res; Renal Disaster Relief Task Force; rhabdomyolysis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIURETIC AGENT; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FLUID THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPODERMOCLYSIS; HYPOTENSION; MASS DISASTER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE WORK; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 84864433099     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs040     Document Type: Article

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