Compartment Pressure Monitor

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We would agree with Charity's  approach. It is truly rare to find an awake,
alert, oriented, polytrauma patient without distracting injuries and to whom
no narcotics or sedatives have been given. Dead or dying muscle is not
always painful.

Sam Picone
St Josephs, Wisconsin

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Zsolt Balogh <
Zsolt.Balogh at hnehealth.nsw.gov.au> wrote:

> 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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