Abdominal Compartment Syndrome - A Deadly Problem

Описание: What is abdominal compartment syndrome?

How do you define it? How do you diagnose it? How do you treat it? Importantly...can we prevent abdominal compartment syndrome?

If undiagnosed and untreated abdominal compartment syndrome can be extremely lethal.

One of the first papers I published as a surgery resident looked a the mortality rate in children with abdominal compartment syndrome and the risk of death was 50%. That's extremely high risk!


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In this video we're going to start with definitions...

Intra-abdominal pressure
Abdominal perfusion pressure
Intra-abdominal hypertension
Abdominal compartment syndrome


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We're also going to go through the causes of abdominal compartment syndrome, ACS, and the classification system as primary and secondary.

What is Pascal's law? Bring back physics nightmares? I'm going to teach out how this law helps you understand ACS!

I'm going to show you how you can set up a bladder pressure monitoring system that's simple.

And finally I'm going to take you through how I treat abdominal compartment syndrome and steps we can take to prevent it.

Check out these AMAZING timestamps and fast forward if you need to:

Start 00:00
Defining abdominal compartment syndrome 01:25
Risk factors and causes of ACS 04:55
Classification of ACS 06:43
Clinical presentation of ACS 08:18
What is Pascal's law? 09:37
Making the Diagnosis of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome 10:56
What is happening in the different organ systems? 13:46
Remove, Relax, Open - Treating ACS 18:35
Preventing Abdominal Compartment Syndrome 26:26


REFERENCES
Fluid Management Strategies and Review of ACS https://citizensurgeon.co/JacobsACS
Pancreatitis, IAH and ACS https://citizensurgeon.co/AsencioACS
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Surgical Patients https://citizensurgeon.co/LeonACS


WHO AM I?
I'm Dr. Erik Pearson, FACS and I am a board certified pediatric surgeon living in Las Vegas. I make surgical education videos on all topics in general surgery as well as talks on lifestyle design as a surgeon, book reviews, and studying effectively. I also write a weekly newsletter called the Saturday Six where I identify Six different discoveries of the week. You can get the weekly newsletter by signing up to the CITIZENSURGEON Community!

DISCLAIMER
While my aim is to help educate you for the ward, the surgical ICU, the operating room and your exams remember these videos are not a replacement for your reading, your medical school and residency preparation and most important your own decision making. If you have medical questions definitely consult a medical professional. Good luck and enjoy!

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