How bad does health care suck in Canada?

[SoCalCoug]

Originally Posted by ERCougar

SCC probably knows this but for everyone else, diagnosing compartment syndrome requires sticking a large needle into the four muscle compartments of your calf to measure the pressures. As you can imagine, it's EXTREMELY painful, especially when your presenting complaint was likely to be calf pain. I'll propose something--every attorney that comes into the ER with calf pain, even if I'm totally convinced it's a pulled muscle or a sprained ankle, gets compartment pressures done because after all, it COULD be compartment syndrome, and "it's tough to diagnose if you don't even test for it". I wonder if that would lead to some tort reform.

Sheez...I AM grumpy.

This was a severe fracture of the tibial plate, requiring surgery. Of course, I've grossly simplified the facts. Post-operatively, compartment syndrome here was a significant risk, and the doctor didn't test for it.

Additional complications included leaving significant necrotic tissue during a debridement because the doctor couldn't fully distinguish the demarcation between the necrotic and the healthy tissue.

[ERCougar]

Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

This was a severe fracture of the tibial plate, requiring surgery. Of course, I've grossly simplified the facts. Post-operatively, compartment syndrome here was a significant risk, and the doctor didn't test for it.

Additional complications included leaving significant necrotic tissue during a debridement because the doctor couldn't fully distinguish the demarcation between the necrotic and the healthy tissue.

Like I said, you're in a better position than me to judge this case. I'm just being grumpy.