Incidence and risk assessment of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients admitted to intensive care unit for postoperative care.

CONCLUSIONS: Though accompanying with the sub-utilizing of chemoprophylaxis, the overall incidence of VTE was relatively low in Chinese cancer patients admitted to ICU for postoperative care. In contrast, the Caprini score was high in this population. The original Caprini RAM was limited to stratify this population, but further substratification of "highest risk" category demonstrated the risk of developing VTE events was significantly higher in patients with Caprini score >10. Future research with high quality evidence should be performed targeting on the accurate risk stratification and optimizing VTE prophylaxis for this population. PMID: 29552792 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of B.U.ON. - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: J BUON Source Type: research