Jamesa Fabien, Ciara Burgess, Douglas Taylor, Raven Hill, Andreya Antoine, Samantha Woolery, Archibald Agyekum-Yamoah, Courtney Meyer, Stacy Dougherty, Jonathan Nguyen, Randi Smith, Jason Sciarretta, S Rob Todd, Christine Castater
Compartment syndrome (CS) is a well-known surgical emergency with high morbidity including potential long-term disability and limb loss. The most important factor determining the degree of morbidity with CS is time to treatment; therefore, early diagnosis and surgery are vital. We present a patient who fell off his bicycle and sustained cervical spine fractures causing near complete quadriplegia. He was found by the road over 12 hours later, so his creatine phosphokinase (CPK) was trended and serial examinations were performed...
April 3, 2024: American Surgeon