Replies to post #100665 on Biotech Values

[DewDiligence]

Not right now, no. In my opinion, it's not meant (or destined) to serve as the sole treatment in an acute setting. But this procedure is actually something I've started to study, and it is surprisingly effective. The effects are systemic (not so much local) and, in my own view, a very useful method to reveal protective pathways.

I think you and dewophile are using the word systemic differently than I am. Yes, leg compression has some beneficial effect all over the body. But would leg compression be considered a valid means of preventing a clot in, say, the coronary arteries following a stent procedure?

I doubt it. Rather, I think the compression device that’s the subject of this thread will be limited to cases where the likely origin of a clot is in the legs, such as following hip- or knee-replacement surgery. And, even then, I don’t see it as a replacement for anticoagulation.

[genisi]

I think that patients need to pay for using the device after they are being discharged from the hospital and that might also be a problem although a minor one.