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    Positioning of compartment pressure monitors in lower limb fractures

    Report by: Nawfal Al-Hadithy, SHO Orthopaedics

    Search checked by: Shafic Al-Nammari, Registrar Orthopaedics

    Institution: Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK

    Three-part question

    In (a patient with suspected lower limb compartment syndrome) does (the distance of a compartment monitoring device from the fracture site) affect (the measured compartment pressure)?

    Clinical scenario

    A 29-year-old man presents to the emergency department after sustaining a mid-shaft spiral closed tibial fracture …

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    • Linked articles 104919, 104927, 104935, 104901.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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    • Best Evidence Topic reports
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      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 952-953 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104919
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      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 953-953 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104927
    • Best evidence topic reports
      BET 3
      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 953-954 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104935
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      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2011; 28 817-817 Published Online First: 19 Aug 2011. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104943corr1