Compartment Syndrome after Anti-shock Trouser Use without Lower-extremity Trauma
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 22 (7) , 595-597
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-198207000-00013
Abstract
The use of anti-shock trousers is widely advocated for the treatment of hypovolemic shock. Despite its frequent use, few complications have been reported in the medical literature. Although speculation exists that anti-shock trouser application may result in ischemic injury to the lower extremities, this complication has only recently been reported. This report describes a patient with no lower extremity trauma who developed bilateral anterior and lateral compartment syndromes after the application of anti-shock trousers.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Intramuscular Pressures with Limb CompressionNew England Journal of Medicine, 1979