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Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
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Effect of Intermittent Pneumatic Compression of Foot and Calf on Walking Distance, Hemodynamics, and Quality of Life in Patients with Arterial Claudication. A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study With 1-Year Follow-up

David L. Dawson, MD

William C. Pevec, MD

Division of Vascular Surgery, University of California, Davis, 2221 Stockton Blvd, 2Td Floor, Sacramento, CAA 95817 david.dawson{at}ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

The authors evaluated the effect of ntermittent pneumatic compression on the walking ability, peripheral hemodynamics and quality of life in patients With claudication. Forty-one patients with claudlcation were randomized to intermittent cornoression and aspirin or aspirin alone. Inflation for 4 seconds at 3 impulses per minute, calf inflate delay 2 second was used for 5 months for at least 2.5 hours daily. The claudication patients who had intermittent pneumatic compression had improved nitial and absolute claUdication distance on treadmill testing and improved ankle-brachial index measurements compared with those who did not. The authors concluded that intermittent pneumatic compression was effective method for improving walking ability and pressure indices.

Key Words: Intermrittent claudication • therapy • intermittent pneumatic compression devices.

Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Vol. 17, No. 4, 376-1-378 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/153100350501700412
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