Acute Compartment Syndrome in Orthopedics: Causes, Diagnosis, and Management

Almost all orthopaedic surgeons come across acute compartment syndrome (ACS) in their clinical practice. Diagnosis of ACS mostly relies on clinical findings. If the diagnosis is missed and left untreated, it can lead to serious consequences which can endanger limb and life of the patient and also ri...

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Autores principales: Raza, Hasnain, Mahapatra, Anant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25688303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/543412
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description Almost all orthopaedic surgeons come across acute compartment syndrome (ACS) in their clinical practice. Diagnosis of ACS mostly relies on clinical findings. If the diagnosis is missed and left untreated, it can lead to serious consequences which can endanger limb and life of the patient and also risk the clinician to face lawsuits. This review article highlights the characteristic features of ACS which will help an orthopaedic surgeon to understand the pathophysiology, natural history, high risk patients, diagnosis, and surgical management of the condition.
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spelling pubmed-43208952015-02-16 Acute Compartment Syndrome in Orthopedics: Causes, Diagnosis, and Management Raza, Hasnain Mahapatra, Anant Adv Orthop Review Article Almost all orthopaedic surgeons come across acute compartment syndrome (ACS) in their clinical practice. Diagnosis of ACS mostly relies on clinical findings. If the diagnosis is missed and left untreated, it can lead to serious consequences which can endanger limb and life of the patient and also risk the clinician to face lawsuits. This review article highlights the characteristic features of ACS which will help an orthopaedic surgeon to understand the pathophysiology, natural history, high risk patients, diagnosis, and surgical management of the condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4320895/ /pubmed/25688303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/543412 Text en Copyright © 2015 H. Raza and A. Mahapatra. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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