dc.contributor.author
Tischer, Anna
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-07T22:25:11Z
dc.date.available
2000-12-14T00:00:00.649Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/9245
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-13444
dc.description
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dc.description.abstract
This study gives a survey of the literature about compartmental syndromes in
man and dogs. In anatomical preliminary studies the known osteofascial
compartments at the femur, the crus and the antebrachium of the dog were
dissected. Three standard positions for pressure measurement (proximal, middle
and distal third) in the cranial and caudal femoral, the craniolateral tibial
and the caudomedial antebrachial compartment were chosen. By injecting
coloured dye at these positions the correct placement in each compartment
could be verified in the anatomic dissection.
In a clinical study of half year duration 40 dogs with fractures of the femur
(n=15), the tibia (n=15) or the antebrachium (n=11) were investigated by
measuring intracompartmental pressures with a digital monitoring device
(MEREX).
Measurements were token under general anesthesia at the contralateral sound
extremity (n=41), the fractured limb preoperatively (n=39), postoperatively
(n=37), the first day (n=13) and the second day (n=2) after surgical
management of the fractures.
No uniform intracompartmental pressure for the dog could be found. Comparison
between regions showed that the craniolateral tibial compartment had higher
normal values (5,9 ± 3,0 mm Hg) than the cranial (3,5 ± 2,1 mm Hg) and caudal
(2,5 ± 1,2 mm Hg) femoral compartment and the caudomedial compartment of the
antebrachium (2,6 ± 1,2 mm Hg).
Fractures increased the intracompartmental pressure in most cases. In the
tibial compartment average pressure elevations were more severe (5,5 mm Hg)
than in the compartments of the antebrachium (3,3 mm Hg) and the thigh (2 mm
Hg).
After osteosynthesis the increase of the pressure in the compartments of the
thigh was only mild, in the tibial compartment, however, the pressure was
markedly elevated. In the antebrachial compartment postoperative pressure
elevations were only found after tight subcutaneous suturing.
Four patients with oblique tibial fractures showed severe pre- and
postoperative pressure rises (> 20 mm Hg). One dog with a transverse tibial
fracture and three dogs with complex radius/ulna fractures showed similar
postoperative pressure elevations.
Despite developement of rather high differences between pressures in the sound
and the fractured extremity (pre- and postoperatively) critical netto values
were hardly reached.
Pressure values indicating an impending or manifest compartmental syndrome in
human medicine only appeared in few cases. These dogs however, developed no
remaining functional defects.
The findings of the current study have the following clinical relevance:
Intracompartmental pressure elevations in fractured limbs are usually mild. In
cases suspicious for having developed higher pressures or in risk patients
(with dog bite wounds or oblique tibial fractures) a tight fascial closure
should be avoided. Only in these patients postoperative pressure measurements
are indicated to assess the need of performing a fasciotomy. Longer lasting
pressure elevations exceeding 40 mm Hg require surgical decompression of the
compartment.
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http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject.ddc
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
dc.title
Messung des Gewebedruckes in den Muskellogen (Kompartments) der Extremitäten
des Hundes
dc.contributor.firstReferee
Prof. Dr. Leo Brunnberg
dc.contributor.furtherReferee
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Budras
dc.date.accepted
1996-12-13
dc.date.embargoEnd
2001-02-02
dc.identifier.urn
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-1998000927
dc.title.translated
Pressure measurements in the muscular compartments of canine extremities
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refubium.affiliation
Veterinärmedizin
de
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FUDISS_thesis_000000000032
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http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/1998/92/
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FUDISS_derivate_000000000032
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free
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open access