Talk:Compartment syndrome

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[edit] The 5 'p's of compartment syndrome

It may be worth adding the 5 'p's of compartment syndrome to this page.

All five of these 'p's are 'pain' highlighting the importance of this symptom in someone post fracture. These are more useful than the 6 'p's of ischaemia as ischaemia is a very late sign of compartment syndrome. More specifically the list is

5 'p's of compartment syndrome
Pain despite analgesia
Pain greater than would be expected for that injury
Pain on passive movement of the fingers or toes which continues while the digit is help in position
Pain in the presence of pulses - loss of pulses as indicated by the 6 'p's of ischaemia is a very late sign in compartment syndrome as compartment pressure would first have to exceed arterial pressure. By this point pain and damage has already occurs due to venous obstruction
Pain elicited by touching skin over the compartment - tenderness

I'm not an expert at editing pages so I will leave this, hopefully, for someone to edit.

--90.199.100.211 (talk) 17:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC) Oliver