Intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome

In a prospective, observational study of 478 patients requiring an open abdomen for the management of intra-abdominal hypertension or abdominal compartment syndrome, surgical intensivists followed a continually revised management algorithm and demonstrated increased patient survival to hospital discharge from 50% to 72%, clinically significant decreases in resource utilization, and an increase in same-admission primary fascial closure from 59% to 81%.
Such a multi-modality surgical/medical management algorithm is available from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome at the link below.
Here are the main algorithms:


World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome