[Pneumatic management of the circulation]

The author suggests a way of activating deficient arterial circulation, by means of a pneumatic method whose aim is to aspirate and then force the blood back into a limb by a system of external depressions and compressions, synchronized from the systole to the diastole. This pneumatic management of the circulation is called for in patients with obliterating arteritis, or patients who have undergone vascular surgery. With the desirable precautions, such a technique means that hypovascularized lower limbs can be saved, and so amputation can be avoided.