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Crush Injury and Crush Syndrome
The definition according to the faculty of pre-hospital care are that a crush injury is a direct injury resulting from a crush and the crush syndrome is a systemic manifestation of muscle cell damage. So we'll delve into those in a lot more depth as we go through this episode. The severity of injuries and the syndromes relates to several different things including the magnitude of the force that supplied the duration of that force and the bulk of muscle affected.