[Elastic compression by calibrated bandage].

Elastic compression using the interchangeable bandage is still one of the best treatments of uncompensated venous deficiency, which has reached the complications stage. Of the three parameters necessary to the proper use of this treatment, only the strength of the bandages and the number of turns or overlaps used to be accessible. Today, the Thuasne Firm has achieved a gauge of the bandage using an original printing method, which involves drawing out 30% of this bandage by showing squared geometric figures, concealed, clearly, by an overlap of 2/3 or 3/4. In this way, for the "light" bandage of the category Biflex 16, a pressure-bracket of 15-30 mm Hg is obtained, and for a "heavy" bandage, Biflex 17, pressures ranging from 35-80 mm Hg. Thus, the empiricism always in mind when interchangeable bandages were the issue, ought from now on to make way for a more rigorous approach, interchangeable compression becoming constant, easily reproduced, and easily manageable.