ABSTRACT
There are currendy few data on the medical management of ACS. A Medline literature search combining the key words “abdominal compartment syndrome” and “medical manage ment” only yields 3 articles 1A‘3 as of May 2004, two in English and one in French.1A This is clearly an area where more investigation and data are required. Medical nonoperative manage ment of abdominal compartment syndrome has not been studied when trying to avoid the complications of surgery especially in the absence of haemodynamic instability. For these rea sons much of what is discussed in this chapter is based on anecdotal and limited experience and restricted by this lack of clinical data.
