Aggressive venous thromboembolism prophylaxis reduces VTE events in vascular surgery patients.

CONCLUSIONS: The overall rate of VTE was reduced by 75% after the initiation of a standard protocol for pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis. These findings justify an aggressive approach to VTE prophylaxis in vascular surgery patients. PMID: 26123057 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123057?dopt=Abstract

Source: Vascular - June 29, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Durinka JB, Hecht TE, Layne AJ, Jackson BM, Woo EY, Fairman RM, Rohrbach JI, Wang GJ Tags: Vascular Source Type: research

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