Crush injury

Crush injury is defined as compression of limbs or other parts of the body, causing muscle swelling and / or neurological disease in the affected body part. The affected areas of a typical body include the lower limbs (74%), the upper limbs (10%), and the trunk (9%). Often seen in crushing injuries caused by violent squeezing of hands and feet by blunt objects such as bricks, stones, doors and windows, machines or vehicles; it can also be seen in crushing injuries caused by explosive impacts. These crush injuries often Internal organs, causing gastric bleeding, rupture of the lungs and liver and spleen. A more serious crush injury is a buried injury of earthwork or stones. This injury often causes a series of pathological changes in the body and even causes renal failure, which is called "squeezing syndrome". Depending on the severity and severity of the site of the crush injury, the treatment methods are different.

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