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A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve the Recognition of Compartment Syndrome by Nurses in the Orthopedic Department

Delayed recognition of compartment syndrome can result in devastating consequences such as the need for amputation or even death. Nurses are at the frontline of patient care in the orthopedic department and it is essential that they have a high index of suspicion for compartment syndrome. In this pu...

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Autores principales: Robertson, Calum, Baggott, James, Duncan, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262915
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11179