Patent ID: 6565592
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A vein compressing device comprising:a pressure source; a pressure hose cuff connected to said pressure source; and a pressure adjusting auxiliary means comprising a pressure setting unit for determining a value for an internal pressure in said pressure hose cuff, and a control means for adjusting the internal pressure in said pressure hose cuff to the predetermined value; wherein said pressure setting unit further comprises: a digital memory in which pressure values for the internal pressure in said pressure hose cuff, depending on an age and/or physical constitution of a patient, are stored; an input component for manually imputting the age and/or the physical constitution of the patient; and a microcomputer for reading, from the memory, a suitable pressure value in dependence on the input age and/or the physical constitution of the patient, at which a squeezing off of a vein is effected while the flow area of an artery is maintained at least partly, and which controls said control means such that the internal pressure in said pressure hose cuff is kept at the pressure value read from the memory.