Year: 1941
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Amongst air-raid casualties seen at this hospital have been four cases of crush injury of the limbs which, because of the general similarity of their clinical course, were thought to represent a specic and hitherto unreported syndrome, and one which has been and will be seen elsewhere during .thewar.Suich a condition may have been ob- ' _ ' ing.The haemo- IST DAY 2ND globin, however, CHART ]is raised, and a few hours later, despite vasoconstfttbtS, iiade.-ma-iifest by pallor, coldness, and sweating, 'Thfe blood -pressure falls.This is restored--to pre-shock.level by (often multiple) transfusicns of serum, plasrna,&"_ -casionall'
Source: BMJ
Authors: E. G. L. Bywaters, D. Beall
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2167516074