"The study looked at both manual methods of placing a knee or fist into the abdomen to exert force to achieve aortic compression and it looked at the use of the AAJT-S device to achieve this effect.

"It is widely believed that lying women flat on their back during labor can lead to dangerously low blood pressure caused by the compression of both the inferior vena cava and the aorta due to the ...

In the past, he had undergone repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, bilobar wedge resection, and chest-wall resection because of a left-sided Pancoast's tumor. At that time, the thoracic aorta ...