CriticalCareNow highlights a bedside pattern suggesting abdominal compartment syndrome, urging clinicians to check intra-abdominal pressure when pressor needs rise, peak pressures climb, and urine output drops.
Rising Pressors + Peak Pressures + No Urine — Is It Abdominal Compartment Syndrome?
Norepi is up to 0.8
peak airway pressures keep climbing
they've barely made any urine in the last 4 hours
Before you add another pressor — what are you checking?
This is the triad that should stop you in your tracks:
Rising peak inspiratory pressures
they've barely made any urine in the last 4 hours.
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