Soft Tissue Trauma

Question 1

Compartment syndrome

Answer 1

Result of a crush injury usually caused by compressive forces or blunt trauma to muscle groups confined in tight fibrous sheaths with minimal ability to stretch

Question 2

Crush injury

Answer 2

Injury form exposure of tissue to a compressive force sufficient to interfere with the normal structure and metabolic function of the involved cells and tissues

Question 3

Crush syndrome

Answer 3

A life threatening and sometimes preventable complication of prolonged immobilization a pathological process that causes destruction alteration or both of the muscle

Question 4

Rhabdomyolysis

Answer 4

An acute sometimes fatal disease characterized by destruction of skeletal muscle

Question 5

Layers of the skin

Answer 5

Epidermis outermost and dermis is inner