APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING COMPRESSION TO A LIMB

A compression garment assembly for providing compression to a limb has a wrap-around garment for wrapping around the limb of a patient. The wrap around garment has a releasable fastening for securing the wrap-around garment in position, and one or more inflatable chambers for applying compression to...

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Hauptverfasser:	GARDNER, Jeremy Paul, BALLANTINE DYKES, Charles Hugh, CROSSLEY, Robin Alexander, COLTHURST, James Richard, POTTER, Andrea Elise
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSESOR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS FIRST-AID KITS FOMENTATION HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE MASSAGE MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING ORSTIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY PROSTHESES TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS
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Zusammenfassung:	A compression garment assembly for providing compression to a limb has a wrap-around garment for wrapping around the limb of a patient. The wrap around garment has a releasable fastening for securing the wrap-around garment in position, and one or more inflatable chambers for applying compression to the limb. A surface of the at least one inflatable chamber which faces the limb in use, has an undulating profile when inflated.