[Measuring device for routine intraoperaative morphological-functional estimation of the peripheral outflow and terminal flow channels during operations in peripheral vascular surgery].

In 1975, Heinrich, Förster and Oschartz developed the radioresistometry as a method of intraoperative assessment of the peripheral resistance. In this report the authors describe a full-electronic apparatus of their own construction making possible to introduce the above mentioned method into the routine clinical programme of surgical treatment of chronic occlusions of peripheral arteries. A combined use of the intraoperative angiography with measurement of peripheral resistance permits a more exact indication for vascular reconstruction and an early detection of technical failures.