Compartment Pressure Monitor

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dear Andrew,
what your colleague summarized is a pretty safe and sensible approach in AWAKE/ORIENTED patient. compartment pressure monitoring is an important tool in headinjured, intoxicated, sedated, ventilated or on OR table patients. best regards, zsolt balogh

>>> "Andrew J Bowman" <andrewj.bowman at gmail.com> 09/30/08 12:09 PM >>>
Can anyone assist me with this query?

An ortho surgeon at my hospital is debating the utility of compartment
pressure monitoring for suspected compartment syndrome. His thoughts if he
feels by clinical exam the patient has compartment syndrome he does nopt
want to run the risk of having a false negative compartment pressure. On the
other hand if he feels the compartment syndrome is of low probability he
does not want to be faced with a false positive value.

What is the current research for using compartment pressure measurements?

Thanks,

Andrew
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