CRUSH INJURIES. CRUSH SYNDROM

Abstract

Crush Injury: Compression of extremities or other parts of the body that causes muscle swelling and/or neurological disturbances. CRUSH SYNDROME, also known as traumatic rhabdomyolysis, was first reported in 1910 by German authors who described symptoms including muscle pain, weakness, and brown- colored urine in soldiers rescued after being buried in structural debris. Crush Syndrome is the systemic manifestation of muscle cell damage resulting from pressure or crushing. Crush syndrome was not well defined until the 1940s when nephrologists Bywaters and Beal provided descriptions of victims trapped by their extremities during the London Blitz who presented with shock, swollen extremities, tea-colored urine, and subsequent renal failure.