Management of crush victims in mass disasters: Highlights from recently published recommendations

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 328-335

  Sever, Mehmet Sukru ^a   Vanholder, Raymond ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; MANNITOL; MYOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URIC ACID; VITAMIN D;

AMPUTATION; BLEEDING; BURNOUT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRUSH SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; FASCIOTOMY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; MASS DISASTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT TRANSPORT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESCUE WORK; REVIEW; TOURNIQUET;

CRUSH SYNDROME; DECISION TREES; DISASTERS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875009509     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.07340712     Document Type: Review

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