U of Michigan: Outpatient surgery patients also at risk for dangerous blood clots | University of Michigan Health System

 
Outpatient surgery patients also at risk for dangerous blood clots | University of Michigan Health System

"...With the information, the researchers created and validated a risk-stratification tool that can be used to predict a patient’s risk for VTE. The tool identified a 20-fold variation in VTE risk from 0.04 percent to 1.12 percent among the outpatient surgery population.
“These data are in stark contrast to provider and patient expectations that outpatient surgery is a low-risk event,” Pannucci says. “It also underscores the importance of evaluating a patient’s individual risk factors as opposed to procedure-type alone.”.....