Disaster nephrology: Crush injury and beyond

Kidney International

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1049-1057

  Gibney, R T Noel ^a   Sever, Mehmet S ^b   Vanholder, Raymond C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Acute renal failure; Chronic hemodialysis; Chronic kidney disease; Hemodialysis; Rhabdomyolysis

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

ACUTE COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AMPUTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CRUSH SYNDROME; DIET RESTRICTION; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTER VICTIM; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY CARE; FASCIOTOMY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIMB DISEASE; MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; VOLUNTARY WORKER; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; EMERGENCY; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MASS DISASTER; NEPHROLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; CRUSH SYNDROME; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCIES; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; NEPHROLOGY; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899920506     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2013.392     Document Type: Review

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