Compartment pressures after closed tibial shaft fracture. Their relation to functional outcome
| Autor: | Triffitt Pd, Allen Mj, Barnes Mr, W. M. Harper, Konig D, PJ Gregg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Compartment Syndromes Lower limb Closed Fracture Soccer medicine Pressure Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Tibia Fractures Closed Compartment (pharmacokinetics) Monitoring Physiologic business.industry Plaster Casts Surgery Tibial Fractures Casts Surgical medicine.anatomical_structure Tennis Athletic Injuries Upper limb Female Physical handicap Complication business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume. 74(2) |
| ISSN: | 0301-620X |
| Popis: | We measured pressures in the anterior and deep posterior compartments continuously for up to 72 hours in 20 patients with closed fractures of the tibial shaft treated primarily in plaster casts. All were examined independently after periods of three to 14 months. Pressures above 40 mmHg occurred in seven (35%) and above 30 mmHg in 14 (70%). No patient had the symptoms of compartment syndrome during monitoring. Abnormalities at review did not correlate with the maximum consecutive time periods during which the compartment pressures were raised. Thus, in the absence of symptoms the monitored pressures did not relate to outcome. Routine monitoring in this type of patient is therefore of doubtful benefit. |
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