| LOW INTENSITY INTERMITTENT COMPRESSION | |
| For the treatment
of intermittent compression the boot or the sleeve must have several
well individualized, overlaping hambers. We showed that the effect of this
treatment is to drain the fluid fraction of the edema and only. It does
not have any effect on the reabsorption of proteins.
This technique cannot be used by itself, it would trigger a concentration of the proteins in the edematous edema and consequently would favor the process of formation of fibrotic tissue. The studies that
we have performed in CCU on 12 cardia patients wearing a Swan-Gans catheter
have highlighted an increase of all the hemodynamic parameters as soon
as the lower extremities were submitting to the intermittent pressure :
the right auricular pressure, the mean pulmonary arterial pressure as well
as the edge pressure increased significantly.
Intermittent
compression treatment is contraindicated on cardiac patients presenting
an edema.
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