Showing posts with label blood clots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blood clots. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Evidence-Based Medicine Requires Appropriate Clinical Context - re: Deep VeingThrombosis (excerpt)
"What if a patient—after diagnostic tests have been performed and there is no more certainty to obtain—still has a 1 in 100 chance of having venous thromboembolism (VTE)? Should the patient's physician engage the patient in a discussion of the harm and benefit of anticoagulation? What if the chance of VTE was 1 in 20? Or even 1 in 10?"
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blood clots
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deep vein thrombrosis
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diagnostics
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questions
Monday, February 01, 2010
full free access: Duration and magnitude of the postoperative risk of venous thromboembolism in middle aged women: prospective cohort study
Note: the full access to this publication is available for free; professional comments included CONCLUSION: The risk of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism after surgery is substantially increased in the first 12 postoperative weeks, and varies considerably by type of surgery.
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adverse events
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blood clots
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gynecologic cancers
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high risk
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surgery
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surgical safety
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Prophylaxis in the Acute Care Hospital Setting (ENDORSE Survey): Findings in Surgical Patients
Note: study of data from 2004
"Use of prophylaxis varied according to major surgery type from 86.0% for orthopedic surgery to 53.8% in urologic/gynecologic...." "Conclusions: The majority of surgical patients are at high-risk for VTE. Despite long-standing recognition of the high-risk for VTE in surgical patients, thromboprophylaxis remains underutilized."
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blood clots
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surgery
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VTE
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