Doctors at four Baghdad hospitals visited by reporters said the death toll could rise as a result of the severe blast, burn and crush injuries suffered by survivors, some of whom lay groaning in poorly-equipped emergency departments while doctors attended to more urgent cases.
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Unlike in Europe, Emergency Physicians do not regularly practice in the field, and only crew ambulances for specialty situations, such as extreme-low-weight infant transports, ECMO or cardiac bypass transports, or unusual situations such as crush injuries necessitating field amputation, or mass casualty / disaster situations.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been suggested by case reports though as of 2011 not proven in controlled randomized trials to be an effective adjunctive therapy for crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias, by improving wound healing and reducing the need for repetitive surgery.
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The neurosurgeon on call at St . Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center that day called it " one of the worst crush injuries of the skull I have ever seen " and added : " I've seen people thrown out of automobiles look like this, and none of them have survived ."
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An anaesthetist from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary working as part of a field hospital said that there was a serious health and safety risk to people trapped in the kettle and some suffered crush injuries whilst others were nearly pushed off Westminster Bridge into the freezing Thames, likening it to the Hillsborough disaster.
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Medical reports said Mrs Inglis suffered a " significant crush injury and loss of function in her fingers . " A psychiatric report states : " She [ Mrs Inglis ] described being able to see a trail of hair and blood [ as ] she desperately attempted to pull herself inside the car ."
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The experiment showed that after a partial crush injury of the optic nerve, rats injected with activated T cells which are specific for myelin basic protein ( MBP, a common protein in the CNS ) retained 3-fold more retinal ganglion cells with functionally intact axons than did rats injected with activated T cells specific for other ( control ) antigens.
