Compartment syndrome associated with the Lloyd Davies position: Three case reports and review of the literature

Anaesthesia

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 980-987

  Turnbull, D ^b   Mills, G H ^a  

^a Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Critical Care   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Complications; Position: Trendelenberg

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FASCIOTOMY; HUMAN; ILEUM POUCH; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG PAIN; LITHOTOMY; LOWER LEG; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; UROLOGICAL PROCEDURES; VASCULAR DISEASE;

COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0035668383     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.02221.x     Document Type: Article

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