Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is defined as a clinical entity originated from trauma or other conditions, and remains challenging to diagnose and treat effectively. Threre is the controversy in diagnosing, treating ACS. It was found that there was no criterion about the ACS, and result unnecessary osteotomy. The presence of clinical assessment (5P) always means the necrosis of muscles and was the most serious or irreversible stage of ACS. Besides pressure methods, the threshold of pressure identifying ACS was also controversial.
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injury mechanism
Timeframe: up to 1 weeks
the time when the blister appeared
Timeframe: up to 4 weeks
time to reconstructive surgery
Timeframe: time to when the surgery was conducted after 2 weeks
union time
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year
No non-anatomic gap or step (larger than 5 mm)
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year
secondary loss of reduction
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Deep venous thrombosis
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year
superficial wound problems
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year
blister skin immunochemistry and immunofluorescence analysis
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year