An intubated and sedated patient in the emergency department has multiple extremity injuries with the potential...

An intubated and sedated patient in the emergency department has multiple extremity injuries with the potential for causing compartment syndrome. What is the most reliable indication of compartment syndrome in a patient who is unconscious?

a Pulselessness

b Pressure

c Paraesthesia

d Pallor

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C . PARASTHESIA is the right answers

The five "Ps" are a pain in the letter of compartment syndrome, paralysis, paresthesia, corruption and lack of pulse. However, for all severe clinical signs and symptoms, the clinical findings, generally not all, in any case now and in the presence of absence of pulse indicates too late for good results. at first this information, the patient awakens by a "painful" ACS. and the rest suffer stretching pain almost always evolving ACS. if it is established that the ACS at the end of last season The consumer and the clinician do not find pain receptors ischemic fibers NECROSIS before death, but the pain may be present in regional anesthetized patients and sedated in the ICU and paid patients. therefore the PARASTHESIA is more appropriate methord to confirm compartment syndrome in unconsious patients. At the beginning of muscular ischemia, anesthesia, paraesthesia, paraesthesia, and civil paraesthesia.

the rest of the options are rejected because the other options except the pallor must be only identified by the patient who is consious.

Nightingale answered 1 year ago

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