[acb-diabetics] arterial pressure pump approved to prevent ulcers

[Patricia LaFrance-Wolf]

New Pump Exerts Pressure on ann Affected Part of The Body to Force Blood
Flow More Freely And Widely 


FDA Approves Foot Ulcer Treatment Device


Diabetes Health Staff
Jul 29, 2011 

The ArterioFlow 7500 is a pump that exerts pressure on an affected part of
the body to force blood to flow more freely and widely. Increased blood flow
is often the key to speeding up the healing of diabetic
<http://www.diabeteshealth.com/>  ulcers and preventing them from turning
into infected wounds that can lead to gangrene and amputation
<http://www.diabeteshealth.com/browse/complications-and-care/amputations-and
-amputee> .

Approximately 15 percent of people with diabetes
<http://www.diabeteshealth.com/>  develop foot ulcers, the result of
impaired circulation or neuropathy
<http://www.diabeteshealth.com/browse/complications-and-care/nerve-care-neur
opathy/>  brought on by inflammation from the disease. Of that total, the
American Diabetes Association estimates that up to 24 percent will later
undergo an amputation.

"Diabetic foot ulcers have proven to be the most common lower extremity
injuries leading to amputation, and the compression therapy provided by the
ArterioFlow increases blood flow to promote faster healing and prevent
infection and amputation," says Dr. John A. Bennett, CEO of Devon Medical
Products. "While prevention of ulcers is ideal, immediate treatment of
ulcers that do form is vital. Our goal with the ArterioFlow and all of our
compression devices is to make therapy easy and convenient so that patients
will comply more and in turn avoid terrible health consequences."

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