Editing Compartment syndrome (section)

== Exam findings: ==

* Pressure - earliest objective finding - swollen, hard, tender muscle
* Pain on passive extension/stretch
* Paresis - weakness due to nerve compression - reliable finding in anterior compartment of leg
** Document motor at compartment
* Paraesthesias or altered sensation distally
** Early sign of ischaemia
** Document sensation over the compartment and distally - focus on nerves traversing the compartment
** Loss of two-point discrimination is a relatively sensitive indicator of developing compartment syndrome (see 'Diagnosis' for how to examine it)
* Paralysis
* Pulse gone (LATE SIGN - end stage - many patients with compartment syndrome still have a pulse)