Patients with compartment syndrome will have an injury that is associated with limb edema. Patients who are awake and alert can accurately describe the pain and loss of function that is commonly ...

Close monitoring of the limb at heart level and regular examination of the patient at risk is essential once it has been decided that there is the possibility of compartment syndrome. If the above ...

Objective: To describe the histological features of the fascial-periosteal interface at the medial tibial border of patients surgically treated for chronic deep posterior compartment syndrome and to ...

Her solicitors at Irwin Mitchell state: “If that instruction had been complied with, then the compartment syndrome would have been promptly identified and treated at surgery, and the limb would ...

While endoscopically assisted fasciotomy is technically feasible, we do not recommend its use for the treatment of acute compartment syndrome in the upper extremity. It may be acceptable for ...