Table 1.
Earthquake-associated crush injury and outcomes after renal replacement therapy.
| Author/year | Location | Year | No. deaths | No. requiring RRT* | Mortality after RRT* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collins and Burzstein 1991 [23] | Mexico City, MX | 1985 | >3000 | Unknown | Unknown |
| Tattersall et al. 1990 [13] | Northern Armenia | 1988 | Approximately 25,000 | 385 | 2 of 15 reported |
| Collins and Burzstein 1991 [23] | San Francisco, USA | 1989 | 60 | 1 | Not reported |
| Atef et al. 1994 [24] | Northwest Iran | 1990 | >40,000 | 154 | 23 |
| Oda et al. 1997 [25] | Kobe, JP | 1995 | >5,000 | 8/8 reported | 0 |
| Vanholder et al. 2001 [26] | Northwest Turkey | 1999 | 17,479 | 477 | 82 |
| Sever et al. 2004 [27] | |||||
| Hwang et al. 2001 [28] | Central Taiwan | 1999 | >2,300 | 30 | Not reported |
| Huang et al. 2002 [29] | |||||
| Viroja et al. 2003 [30] | India | 2001 | >20,000 | 33 | 6 |
| Sever et al. 2006 [7] | Algeria | 2003 | 2,266 | 15 (?) | unknown |
| Hatamizadeh et al. 2006 [31] | Iran | 2003 | 25,514 | 126 | 19 |
| Vanholder 2006 [32] | Pakistan | 2005 | 74,968 | 77 | 11 |
| Vanholder et al. 2010 [33] | Haiti | 2010 | >200,000 | 59 | 3 confirmed of 54 (5 lost to follow up) |
| Amundson et al. 2010 [34] | Haiti | 2010 | >200,000 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Vanholder et al. 2011 [8] | Chile | 2010 | 507 | 2 | 0 |
*Data reported is in many cases from single-center analyses; number requiring RRT and deaths therefore do not reflect total morbid burden for each event, rather the experience at a single center or regional area as reported in the referenced article.