ABSTRACT
At a first glance, a comprehensive history of the abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is an impossible task. It is like writing the history of vomiting or urinating or any other basic human (and mammalian) physiological activity. For as long as humans existed, abdomens ballooned with gas, fluid, blood, pus-resulting in all the physiological changes that we today call intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and ACS.
