Abstract
To the Editor.— I write concerning an advertisement by the Kendall Health-care Products Company that appears on pages 2677 and 2679 of the May 13 issue. The entire tenor of the advertisement is such as to imply, inaccurately, that the consensus statement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) entitled Prevention of Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism 1 specifically endorsed a product of the Kendall Company. The advertisement states that according to the NIH Consensus Development Conference report, the use of physical approaches, such as elevation of the bed, graduated stockings and pneumatic can reduce the incidence of DVT [deep vein thrombosis] significantly [italics added]. The NIH report did not so state. In fact, every reference in the consensus statement is to external pneumatic compression rather than to sequential pneumatic compression. We assume that the consensus panel had no intention of recommending any particular system. Since the
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