External pneumatic compression and fibrinolysis in abdominal surgery

Pneumatic wound compression after hip fracture surgery

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453670903317114 Sir—I have read with interest the article by Dr. Apelqvist et al. In their well-performed study they did not find pneumatic wound compres...

Automatic External Cardiac Massage: a Portable Pneumatic External Cardiac Compression Machine.

Massage or manual compression of the heart is accepted as a useful procedure when heart action has ceased because of accident or temporarily disordered function. Experience in the operating theatre has shown that manual massage through the open chest should be maintained for over an hour before being abandoned, but the procedure is tiring, and the operator must be relieved at frequent intervals...

Importance and advantages of intermittent external pneumatic compression therapy in venous stasis ulceration.

Venous ulcers are seen following postthrombophlebitic syndrome with venous insufficiency and can begin as a result of minor trauma. In this retrospective study the authors examined the value of external intermittent pneumatic compression therapy in chronic venous ulcers. Results in 1,250 patients with postthrombophlebitic syndromes, 235 of these patients with leg ulcers, revealed that this moda...

StarSystem Intermittent Pneumatic Compression

Effect of optimization of hemodynamics on fibrinolytic activity and antithrombotic efficacy of external pneumatic calf compression.

External pneumatic calf compression is effective but imperfect for antithrombotic prophylaxis in surgical patients. In preliminary studies, sequential filling of multisegmented leggings with graded pressure decreasing from ankle to knee increased venous flow velocity and wall shear stress, decreased residual venous volume, and enhanced postoperative fibrinolysis more than uniform compression. T...