[Randomized, controlled trial, to assess the efficacy of two vascular compression techniques in reducing complications at vascular access sites after therapeutic or diagnostic catheterization].

Objective: To compare the incidence of hemostatic failure and rate of vascular events during and after vascular compression using two different techniques.

Methods: Patients were randomized to mechanical or manual compression after a therapeutic or diagnostic catheterization procedure.

Results: One hundred patients were enrolled in the mechanical compression group (group one) and 112 patients in the manual compression group (group two).