Crush injury

Crush injury
Classification and external resources
ICD-9-CM	925-929
MedlinePlus	000024

A crush injury is injury by an object that causes compression of the body.^[1]^[2] This form of injury is common following a natural disaster or after some form of trauma from a deliberate attack.^[3] Common concerns after an injury of this type are rhabdomyolysis and crush syndrome.^[3]

References[edit]

^ crush injury, Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010
^ Ron Walls MD; John J. Ratey MD; Robert I. Simon MD (2009). Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Expert Consult Premium Edition - Enhanced Online Features and Print (Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts & Clinical Practice (2v.)). St. Louis: Mosby. pp. 2482–3. ISBN 0-323-05472-2.
^ ^a ^b N.A. Jagodzinski, C. Weerasinghe, K. Porter (July 2011). "Crush injuries and crush syndrome—A review". Injury Extra 42 (9): 154–5. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2011.06.368.

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