The treatment of compartment syndromes of the leg.
Eighteen patients with acute compartment syndromes below the knee were treated with four-compartment fasciotomies using the double-incision technique. Pre-operative tissue pressure measurements ranged from 28 to 47 mmHg. If fasciotomy was performed within 24 hours of the onset of clinical symptoms and signs, a good result was almost always achieved. It is recommended that tibial fractures complicated with a compartment syndrome should be treated with some form of operative stabilisation of the fracture at the time of surgical fasciotomies.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D000071938:Fasciotomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000294:innervation*; D008297:Male; D008365:Manometry; D008722:Methods; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000150:complications; D013997:Time Factors