How much weight does it take to crush a human body?

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How much weight does it take to crush a human body?

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answered Dec 9, 2022 by Wotsonyourbag (11,700 points)
The amount of weight it takes to crush a human body is around 600 lbs although sometimes it may take as much as 1,200 lbs of weight to crush a larger human body.

Around 400 lbs of crushing pressure on a chest is sometimes survivable although over 626 lbs of weight being crushed on someone is most often fatal.

The reason there is hypocalcemia in crush syndrome is because of variations in cell membrane permeability due to crush syndrome, calcium enters the cell and phosphorus leaves it.

Phosphorus leaving the cell and combining with calcium leads to excretion of these ions.

Crush Syndrome can cause renal failure since crush syndrome predominantly affects the kidneys.

Some complications that can arise from crush syndrome include.

Bleeding.
Bruising.
Compartment syndrome (increased pressure in an arm or leg that causes serious muscle, nerve, blood vessel, and tissue damage)
Fracture (broken bone)
Laceration (open wound)
Nerve injury.
Infection (caused by bacteria that enter the body through the wound)

Crush syndrome takes between 4 to 6 hours to develop.

Crush syndrome is a medical condition characterized by significant systemic symptoms resulting from toxins released by crushed muscle tissue.

Crush injuries are commonly seen in severe trauma, and include direct soft tissue destruction, bony injury and limb ischemia.

Double Crush Syndrome is a rare condition.

Compressive neuropathies at the level of the wrist and elbow involving the median and ulnar nerves can cause disabling pain, numbness, and weakness in ambulatory and otherwise high-functioning patients.

Double crush syndrome is a controversial diagnosis; some scientists and surgeons believe it is an illness construction that may do more harm than good because it emphasizes an objective pathophysiologic explanation for unexplained symptoms, disability, and dissatisfaction that may be more psychosocially mediated.

Double compression of the ulnar nerve is a very rare condition, however.

The most important finding of the present study is that the double crush syndrome occurred in the ulnar nerve, including Guyon's canal syndrome associated with cubital tunnel syndrome caused by the anconeus epitrochlearis muscle.

Some ways to treat double crush include.

Education and rest from aggravating activities.
Postural advice and training.
Cervical spine and carpal bone mobilization.
Flossing of appropriate nerve(s)
Stretching of involved upper limb muscles and soft tissue.
strengthening affected hand and upper limb muscles.

Adjunctive treatment options for double crush syndrome include spinal adjustments, joint mobilizations, exercise and postural advice to name a few.

As with most conditions that present to our clinic, the best choice of treatment depends on a variety of factors specific to each individual patient.

When a person is suffering a crush injury you should if safe and possible remove what is crushing the person.

If not call 911 and get help on the way and you should call 911 either way as it's an emergency if someone is crushed.

If it is safe and physically possible, all crushing forces should be removed from the casualty as soon as possible.

A casualty with a crush injury may not complain of pain, and there may be no external signs of injury.

Keep the casualty warm, treat any bleeding. Continue to monitor the casualties condition.

Stop bleeding by applying direct pressure.
Cover the area with a wet cloth or bandage.
If there is suspicion of a head, neck, or spinal injury, immobilize those areas if possible and then limit movement to only the crushed area.

A crush leg injury is an injury to the leg as a result of something crushing and putting direct force onto the leg which then can cause damage to the blood vessels, leg muscles, tissues and much more.

In some cases the crush to the leg can cause a need to amputate the leg in some severe cases.

Crush injuries to the lower legs is trauma that results from the lower leg being crushed

Crush injury occurs as a result of direct physical crushing of the muscles by a heavy weight and usually involves compression of the legs, arms, and/or trunk.

In addition to the direct tissue damage, the compressive force prevents venous outflow, leading to accumulation of potassium, phosphorus, and myoglobin in the tissues.

Venous obstruction may be also associated with extremity edema.

Crush Trauma is a crush injury that results from being crushed and prolonged compression of the torso, limb(s), or other parts of the body.

The resultant injury to the soft tissues, muscles, and nerves can be due to the primary direct effect of the trauma or ischemia related to compression.

When someone is pressed to death the organs are crushed and the brain may also be pressed as well which then presses the internals out of the brain and your other organs.

Eventually you bleed internally and likely externally and your lungs are also crushed and then you're unable to breathe which you then eventually die.

Being pressed or crushed to death is a terrible way to die and it was used as a means of execution years ago.

A crush death is a death that occurs by your body being crushed.

The crush death can happen as a way of execution in the old days or can be caused by something falling on you by accident or even getting trampled on.

In crowd collapse and crush incidents the most common cause of death is asphyxiation, caused either by vertical stacking, as people fall on top of one another, or by horizontal stacking, where people are crushed together or against an unyielding barrier.

One cubic inch of bone can withstand the weight of five standard pickup trucks, give or take a few pounds.

If you're looking for the specifics to snap a piece of your skeleton, it takes about 4,000 newtons of force to break the typical human femur.

Death by crushing or pressing is a method of execution that has a history during which the techniques used varied greatly from place to place, generally involving placing heavy weights upon a person with the intent to kill.

This form of execution is no longer used by any government.

Being crushed to death can happen as a result of something heavy falling on you such as a building collapse, heavy machinery falling on you etc.

A car falling on you can also be a crush death.

When you suffer a crush death it just simply means that something has fallen on you and killed you by crushing you to death.

A crush death does sometimes result of internal bleeding or bleeding externally.

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