Sequential Compression Device (SCD) accelerates venous emptying ... and is efficacious in reducing overall DVT incidence in hip arthroplasty patients when venography is used as a diagnostic ...

Anticoagulant prophylaxis is highly recommended in medical patients who are at risk of venous thromboembolism (including pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis), but is underutilized.

Each group was treated with one of two types of mechanical compression devices for DVT prophylaxis ... plus the sequential compression device (Kendall, Mansfield, Mass). Throughout the study ...