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Iatrogenic forearm compartment syndrome

Author(s) -

Ahmed Elmorsy,

James Nutt,

Nick Taylor,

Justin Kirk-Bayley,

Sean Hughes

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of the intensive care society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2057-360X

pISSN - 1751-1437

DOI - 10.1177/1751143716674226

Subject(s) - compartment (ship) , medicine , context (archaeology) , intensive care medicine , critically ill , compartment syndromes , forearm , surgery , anesthesia , biology , paleontology , oceanography , analgesic , geology

Limb compartment syndrome may be sequelae of trauma, but in the context of critical care blood sampling, arterial damage may have profound consequences. We describe a series of three cases and their progress and discuss guidelines for prevention of this potentially devastating occurrence in critically ill patients.

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