Cryogenic sleeve for providing therapeutic compression

Claim 1

A cryogenic device for use in diminishing hemorrhage and edema in acute trauma of body extremities includes a sleeve with longitudinal extending sides having a plurality of adjacent non-communicating cryogenic chambers, a fill opening for each cryogenic chamber, a plurality of pressure chambers, with each pressure chamber having an inlet and being generally coextensive with and exterior of a cryogenic chamber, said sleeve cryogenic chambers and coextensive pressure chambers being formed by a sleeve inner wall and a coextensive sleeve outer wall, each of which extends over the entire area of the sleeve, said sleeve inner and outer walls being peripherally joined, intermediate wall means separating each cryogenic chamber from its coextensive pressure chamber, said inner and outer walls and intermediate wall means being joined along longitudinal spaced laterally extending seams to form said plurality of coextensive cryogenic and pressure chambers, a pump connected to all of said pressure chamber inlets and formed and adapted to apply pressure intermittently to one or more of said pressure chambers to thereby apply intermittent cryogenic pressure to an area of a body extremity coextensive with one or more of said cryogenic chambers.