Novel Trauma Guard Catheter To Measure Continuous Intra-Abdominal Pressure

Author Phillip Jenkins, Patrick Beer, James Cranford, Gul Sachwani-Daswani, Dean Kristl, Kristoffer Wong, Lindsey Rieck, Donald Scholten, Mike Jaggi and Leo Mercer

Novel Trauma Guard Catheter To Measure Continuous Intra-Abdominal Pressure

NOVEL TRAUMAGUARD CATHETER TO MEASURE CONTINUOUS INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE

By: Phillip Jenkins, Patrick Beer, James Cranford, Gul Sachwani-Daswani, Dean Kristl, Kristoffer Wong, Lindsey Rieck, Donald Scholten, Mike Jaggi and Leo Mercer

Current techniques for measuring intraabdominal pressure (IAP) are highly variable and dependent on operator skill and method used. The goal of this study is to validate the accuracy of the TraumaGuard® catheter (TG) to continuously measure IAP via the emptied urinary bladder utilizing a novel reliable air charged system. Current methods require instillation of saline into an indwelling bladder catheter which varies from 50-100 mL depending on patient and institution.

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Patrick Beer, DO, Critical Care Surgery Specialist, Hurley Medical Center

“I would recommend TraumaGuard to my colleagues – having watched it correlate 1:1 in the OR with insufflation pressures, as well as looking at the ease of use – this is a very valuable technology to use going forward, especially in resuscitation of patients in the ICU.”

Leo Mercer, MD, Critical Care Surgery Specialist, Hurley Medical Center

“Accuracy is difficult to assess – I can tell you that the best reference number I have for Intra-abdominal Pressure is coming off an insufflator, and to the extent that the TraumaGuard catheter is correlating - almost 1:1 - with that number, is comforting. It really can’t get better than that, frankly.”