Compression Therapy: Is It Worthwhile?

Partsch, Hugo

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-0829-0_11

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“…1 Compression therapy (CT) is considered to be the most important conservative treatment modality. 2 Evidence from the current literature suggests that it is not less effective alone than when combined with superficial venous surgery. 3 The heuristic principle holds that it corrects, at least in part, the underlying ambulatory venous hypertension.…”

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In search of optimal compression therapy for venous leg ulcers: A meta-analysis of studies comparing divers bandages with specifically designed stockings

Amsler

Willenberg

Blättler

2009

Journal of Vascular Surgery

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In search of optimal compression therapy for venous leg ulcers: A meta-analysis of studies comparing divers bandages with specifically designed stockings

Amsler

Willenberg

Blättler

2009

Journal of Vascular Surgery

138

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“…Yet compression remains the cornerstone of care for patients with venous disease and represents a massive cost to health services [1,2]. Current teaching as to what are the appropriate pressures and gradients to be exerted by compression systems is founded on a tenuous evidence base [3,4]. The necessary research to build a more substantial evidence base depends on the availability of appropriately validated tools.…”

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Evaluation of Compression Therapy: Comparison of Three Sub-bandage Pressure Measuring Devices

Ruckley

Dale

Gibson³

et al. 2002

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Objective: To compare the consistency of the pressure measurements and the practical aspects of three manometers (Salzman MST; Oxford Talley and Diastron) measuring sub-bandage pressures. Methods: Five bandages (tubular elastic straight, tubular elastic graduated, short stretch non-elastic, long stretch elastic, cohesive elastic) were applied to standard models comprising foam-covered 9.5 cm, 12.5 cm diameter plastic tubes and a cone by a single expert bandager using a standard spiral technique with 50% overlap for the non-tubular bandages (NTB). The probes of all three machines were positioned at equidistant points around the circumference of each model at three levels corresponding to the ankle, gaiter and mid-calf measuring points of the MST probe. Two readings were taken for each of three separate applications of each bandage. Statistical analysis utilised ANOVA with Bartlett's test. Results. A total of 135 readings were made for each machine and 81 for each type of bandage. Mean pressures among the five bandages types ranged from 12.2 to 35.5 mmHg. A pressure gradient was apparent when NTB bandaging the straight tubes (means 24.7, 23.5, 22.4 mmHg) but not with the cone. There was a statistically significant difference between the three machines (Bartlett's test 23.6, p<0.0001), with the lowest variances for the MST and similar variances for the Oxford and Diastron. Conclusion. In terms of measurement variance this experiment indicates that the MST is the preferred machine for future experiments.

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Evaluation of compression therapy: Comparison of three subbandage pressure measuring devices

Ruckley¹,

Dale²,

Gibson³

et al. 2002

Phlebology

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Compression Therapy: Is It Worthwhile?

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

In search of optimal compression therapy for venous leg ulcers: A meta-analysis of studies comparing divers bandages with specifically designed stockings

In search of optimal compression therapy for venous leg ulcers: A meta-analysis of studies comparing divers bandages with specifically designed stockings

Evaluation of Compression Therapy: Comparison of Three Sub-bandage Pressure Measuring Devices

Evaluation of compression therapy: Comparison of three subbandage pressure measuring devices

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