[Treatment of the positional compression syndrome]

The experience with the treatment of 35 patients with the syndrome of positional compression is described, 29 of then having acute renal insufficiency. They were subjected to 116 operations of hemodialysis. Five patients died. The main caused of the death was acute renal insufficiency. The measures used for the prevention of acute renal insufficiency are considered by the authors to be ineffective while the timely treatment by hemodialysis can result in recovery almost in all the cases. The main cause of failure of the treatment of this type of acute renal insufficiency was hyperhydration of the pulmonary tissue.