A Clinical Study on Intracompartmental Pressure of Leg Using Slit Catheter
10.4055/jkoa.1987.22.2.478
- Author:
Tae Hwan CHO
;
Nam Jin JUNG
;
Chi Jung KANG
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Tissue pressure;
Slit-catheter monitoring
- MeSH:
Adult;
Catheters;
Clinical Study;
Humans;
Leg;
Male;
Methods
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1987;22(2):478-480
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Intracompartmental pressure of leg was measured by the slit catheter technique in one hundred fifty compartments of one hundred cases; fifty were from healthy young male adults, the others were from tibial fractured patients during three years from March 1983 to Fobruary 1986. The results were as follows; 1. Slit-catheter technique was found as a accurate method for continuous pressure monitoring. 2. The range of normal pressure was from zero to six millimeters of mercury(1.45mmHg±0.85). 3. Tissue pressure was 0–15mmHg(4.03mmHg±1.83) in unaffected side of fractured patients, 4–35mmHg(14.65mmHg±2.05) in affected side of fractured patients.
