With the total knee arthroplasty patient often using a continuous passive motion device and the total hip patient using an abduction pillow or balanced suspension, the mechanical compression ...

External mechanical compression improves muscle pump, reduces blood accumulation in the lower extremities, and increases blood return to the heart. Current compression devices have one or a ...

A consecutive series of patients having total joint arthroplasty at a single university hospital were sequentially treated with two mechanical devices for prevention of deep venous thrombosis (DVT).

the LUCAS device. The LUCAS is a mechanical chest compression device paramedics can use on patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. Golder Ranch budgeted for the devices in property tax ...