User talk:Alana.barton

Compression stockings
If TED is a trademark like Kleenex, its owner has done an extremely poor job of protecting it. There are multiple manufacturers and distributors offering "TED hosiery", with brands including (just in this simple search) Jobst, Covidien, Kendall. It is now being used as a generic term. "Edema" is the American spelling of the condition called oedema in British English. See WP:LANGVAR; since this article appears to use American spellings and vocabulary, "edema" is the correct term.  Dwpaul  Talk   05:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dwpaul, Kendall as a brand owned T.E.D.'s and now Covidien own Kendall and T.E.D. so those aren't an issue. Jobst on the other hand is an issue if they are offering T.E.D's. Can you send me the link where they offer them so I can get this looked at, as the link you have given above does not show Jobst offering TED Hosiery? RE the spelling of Oedema/Edema, I was offering the change based on the other numerous clinical papers that refer to the issue as oedema, I didn't realize anyone would take offence.

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Thank you.  Dwpaul  Talk   22:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

No offense taken, just see the link above which explains that as a matter of policy we do not change words on Wikipedia purely because they are in a different variant of English, especially if they are already consistent with the variant used in the rest of the article. As it happens, Oedema is a redirect to Edema, so the reader would have seen the article on Edema if they'd clicked the link. As for the brands of TED stockings, I see Jobst and others at the Google search above, but Google could show different users different results. Here are examples I see of marketing TED stockings under the Jobst trademark, and I see other examples of medical sites using TED as a generic term for compression stockings, e.g..  Dwpaul  Talk   22:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for passing on the links. I have forwarded this onto Covidien in America as I can see this would be very confusing!216.75.222.2 (talk) 23:20, 28 January 2014 (UTC)