Diagnosis and management of extremity compartment syndromes: An orthopaedic perspective

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1199-1209

  Konstantakos, Emmanuel K ^a   Dalstrom, David J ^a   Nelles, Meghann E ^a   Laughlin, Richard T ^a   Prayson, Michael J ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXTRAN; HEPARIN;

BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CATHETER; COMPARTMENT FLUID REMOVAL SYSTEM; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEVICE; DRY SKIN; DYSESTHESIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCIA; FASCIOTOMY; FOREARM; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NOTE; ORTHOPEDICS; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRURITUS; STANDARD; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASONIC PULSED PHASE LOCKED LOOP; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION; ARM; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; LEG; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; REVIEW;

ARM; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FASCIA; HUMANS; LEG; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES;

EID: 38849097266     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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