Subcutaneous emphysema

[KSEMT122]

Dust, I am in no way trying to help the cause of the original poster here, but I thought I'd share with you what a "MICT" is. It is my understanding that two states have "MICT's" They are Kansas and Hawaii. "MICT" stands for "Mobile Intensive Care Technician" it is a fancy word for Paramedic.

[john_boston]

It is. That is what you get when you base findings found in Wikipedia. R/r 911

This was not taken from a Wikipedia entry (there currently is none for subcutaneous emphysema). But even if it was taken from Wikipedia and the information was wrong, why not just fix it? Wikipedia is open-source and what drives its quality up is qualified, educated people correcting and refining articles so that they improve. Don't just complain about it, take some initiative. Wikipedia's record with regard to basic scientific material is actually quite good.

The above definition was copied from the NIH's MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia here. The Merriam-Webster online medical dictionary (here) broadly defines crepitus as "a grating or crackling sound or sensation (as that produced by the fractured ends of a bone moving against each other or as that in tissues affected with gas gangrene)" so the definition applies to both phenomena.