The slit catheter: a comparison with the wick catheter in the measurement of compartment pressure

Comparison of Three Methods for Measuring Intracompartmental Pressure in Injured Limbs of Trauma Patients

“…8,28,29 These findings highlight the importance of comparing methods such as these in a true clinical setting as presented here. Several authors [30][31][32][33] have suggested that a common potential source of error in vivo is insertion of the tip of the device into heterogeneous tissue (tendon, fascia, or other nonmuscle tissue), potentially leading to a false reading. We hypothesize that this was a likely cause of discrepancies between measurements in this study.…”

Axillary vein thrombosis and compartment syndrome in upper limb trauma

“…Further, multiple compartment pressure estimations may be necessary to arrive at an accurate determination 19 . Techniques for the measurement of intracompartment pressure are described elsewhere 20,24 . Indirect methods include the use of tissue compliance measurement 25 .…”

Intramuscular Pressure Monitoring in Acute Compartment Syndrome

“…Techniques for IMP monitoring include the needle manometer with or without infusion of saline into the compart-ment, [44][45][46] the wick catheter, 25,47 the slit catheter [48][49][50] (Fig. 1), or the solid state transducer intracompartmental catheter with or without a transducer at the tip.…”

“…33,51,52 The advantages and disadvantages of each method are shown in Table 1. 25,33,40,44,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62] All these methods are invasive and represent indirect measures of IMP.…”