Cardiovascular · UKMLA & AKT
Gas gangrene
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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- Gas gangrene (clostridial myonecrosis) is a rapidly lethal soft tissue infection characterised by skeletal muscle necrosis, systemic sepsis, and gas production within tissues. Without prompt surgical intervention it is almost universally fatal.
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