Renal Replacement Therapy in Austere Environments

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.