The effect of the position of the limb on venous impulse foot pumps

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 433-434

  Fleming, P ^a,b   Fitzgerald, P ^a   Devitt, A ^a   Rice, J ^a   Murray, P ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Beaumont Hospital ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PUMP; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0034098155     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.82B3.9834     Document Type: Article

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