Indications for Intra-abdominal Pressure monitoring

• Postoperative patients (abdominal surgery)
• Patients with open or blunt abdominal trauma
• Mechanically ventilated ICU Patients with other organ dysfunction as assessed by daily Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score
• Patients with a distended abdomen and signs and symptoms consistent with abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) e.g.:
  
  Oliguria, Hypoxia, Hypotension, Unexplained acidosis, Mesenteric ischemia, Elevated ICP
• Patients with abdominal packing after temporary abdominal closure for multiple trauma or liver transplantation

• Patients with open abdomen, especially if they have an IV bag closure and are in the early postoperative period, may still develop ACS
• Patients who have not had an operation but have received large volumes of fluid resuscitation in the context of an underlying capillary leak problem (pancreatitis, septic shock, trauma, etc.)

Ref.: World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Preliminary

Consensus Definitions on Intra-Abdominal Hypertension (IAH) and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (ACS): Result from the International ACS Consensus Definitions Conference.