Abstract: The arrangement comprises a head which is mounted displaceably in the vertical direction on a swing arm on an upright member which can be fastened to the bottom frame of a hospital bed. The head is equipped with two pressure rods to whose lower end a pressure shoe is attached with a limited amount of swing and covered on the underside with a skid-proof material. The pressure rods can be moved from a starting position to a working position in which the pressure shoes rest against a compress in which position the pressure shoes exert equally large pressures in the vertical direction and in the horizontal direction of one pressure shoe towards the other. The arrangement can replace the manual work of closing an operation wound after a stab insertion into arteria femoralis or vena femoralis, and it is consequently labor-saving.