Pathophysiology of Hemocoagulation and Respiratory Complications in Connection with the Crush Syndrome

Crush syndrome is a post-traumatic syndrome, whose main features are muscle compression, ischemia, shock, and acute renal failure. The traumatic and hypovolemic shock, together with some other events accompanying this syndrome, may produce respiratory distress due to an injury of the alveolar capillary membrane, and hemo-coagulative disorders which may exhibit the features of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).