During EECP treatment the patient lies on a comfortable table with large BP machine-like cuffs wrapped around his/her legs and buttocks. These cuffs inflate & and deflate at specific times between patient’s heart beats.

Continuous electro cardiogram (ECG) is used to set the timing so the cuffs inflate while the heart is at rest, when it normally gets its supply of blood and oxygen. The cuffs deflate at the end of that rest period just before the next heart beat. The special sensor applied to your finger check the oxygen level in your blood and monitors the pressure waves created by the cuff inflations and deflations.

EECP develops new pathways around blocked arteries in the heart by expanding networks of tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that helps increase and normalize blood flow to the heart muscles.