How To Diagnose And Treat Compartment Syndrome

Treatment For Underlying Cause

Compartment syndrome can only be fully resolved if the affected individual receives treatment for the underlying cause. Traumatic injuries such as excessive burns, crush injuries, broken pelvic bone, and limb compression during unconsciousness can cause compartment syndrome to develop. Treating injuries promptly to reduce inflammation can help treat compartment syndrome precipitated from trauma-related causes. Severe internal bleeding from illness or injury, sepsis, abdominal surgery complications, drug overdose, reperfusion injuries, and bleeding disorders can all result in compartment syndrome. In such cases, the internal bleeding itself needs to be mediated in order to treat the patient's compartment syndrome successfully. Often times, treatments for an underlying cause involves medications to reduce the swelling and inflammation inside of a compartment, avoiding certain activities that caused the disorder, repair of damaged and or bleeding tissues, replacement of blood clotting factors, removal or breaking up of a blood clot, and antibiotics to treat infections.