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- Letter to the EditorInjuryVol. 41Issue 4
- PreviewWe read your editorial on ‘Early diagnosis of compartment syndrome: Continuous pressure measurement or not?’1 with interest and not a little trepidation for the management of future patients in the NHS. Your message is that ICP monitoring is unnecessary. However we feel that we should point out that there is evidence that the traditional clinical signs of compartment syndrome are at best often difficult to interpret. Ulmer, in his analysis of the usefulness of these signs, showed that the classical clinical signs had a sensitivity of 13–19% and a positive predictive value of only 11–15%.
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