Adjustable ratcheting vascular compression device and method of use

An adjustable ratcheting vascular compression device deployed onto a patient for partially or completely occluding blood flow in a blood vessel in a limb of the patient by adjustably applying preferential compression to said vessel and, following deployment, enabling loosening in consistent, fine increments without enabling complete release of such compression, the device including:

• a housing;
• a compression pad located on the underside of the housing;
• a flexible strap connected to a side of the housing;
• threads placed in at least two rows on the top surface of the strap;
• at least two independently manually actuated levers, each having a pawl on its underside for engaging with the threads and attached to the interior of the housing by a hinge, the hinge having flexion in the manner of a spring;
• wherein
• centers of the threads in one row are offset from centers of the threads in another row by an offset distance;
• wherein only one thread is engaged with only one pawl of the at least two pawls, to prevent slidable movement of the strap through the housing, at any time;
• lifting the lever to which is attached the pawl then engaged with the thread, to prevent slidable movement of the strap through the housing, disengages the pawl from the thread to enable such slidable movement, which is limited to the offset distance.