The efficacy of a new portable sequential compression device (SCD Express) in preventing venous stasis

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 296-303

  Kakkos, Stavros K ^a,b   Griffin, Maura ^a   Geroulakos, George ^a,b,c   Nicolaides, Andrew N ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; SEQUENTIAL COMPRESSION DEVICE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; TIME PERCEPTION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS STASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE ULCER; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 23744456830     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2005.03.031     Document Type: Article

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