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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 AIRCAST pressurized cold therapy system the effect of early treatment in the observation of fracture [Keywords:] compression cold therapy; fracture Bone, joint and soft tissue swelling and pain after injury is a common clinical symptom of orthopedic, such as the first time after injury by cold treatment can effectively reduce the swelling and pain. Cold can microvascular contraction, reduced permeability to reduce the bleeding, slow down nerve conduction velocity, the local peripheral nerve paralysis, lower tissue temperature, and cell metabolism, with bleeding, pain, swelling of the role of [1], the effect is indeed, affordable. clinically used homemade ice cold, but higher due to the hardness of ice, and with the surface contact area is small, and difficult to fixed, to maintain low temperature short time, the frequent need to replace the other shortcomings. AIRCAST our department introduced a pressurized cold therapy system for treatment of limb fractures caused by swelling and pain, has made good results are reported below. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General information on our department in October 2008 has been pressurized cold therapy system using AIRCAST limb fracture patients were treated with 268 cases. 152 patients were male, female 116 cases, aged 13 to 70 years, 62 patients with fractures of radius and ulna, humerus fractures of 43 cases, 58 cases of femur fracture, tibia and fibula fracture of 105 cases. were admitted to hospital after injury, hospitalization time of 0.5 to 6 hours. Materials preparation AIRCAST 1.2 compression cold therapy system is divided into buckets, pipe, ice pocket in three parts. First blue pipe connected to the ice bucket, then add water to the buckets scale line, coupled with the ice surface stamped insulating film, and then tightly closed lid, connect the other end of the ice tube pocket. ice bag set is divided into upper cover, lower limb sets, full sets, sets of four types of shou