Continuous compartment pressure monitoring for tibia fractures: Does it influence outcome?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1330-1335

  Harris, Ian A ^a   Kadir, Agus ^a   Donald, Geoff ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compartment pressure monitoring; Compartment syndrome; Fracture; Randomized controlled trial; Tibia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TIBIA FRACTURE; TOE MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745258239     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000196001.03681.c3     Document Type: Article

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