Inability of an aggressive policy of thromboprophylaxis to prevent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in critically injured patients: Are current methods of DVT prophylaxis insufficient?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 529-533

  Velmahos, George C ^a,b   Nigro, John ^a   Tatevossian, Raymond ^a   Murray, James A ^a   Cornwell III, Edward E ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a   Asensio, Juan A ^a   Berne, Thomas V ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG COMPRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BANDAGES; BRAIN INJURIES; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EXTREMITIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; GRAVITY SUITS; HEMATOMA; HEPARIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; LEG; LENGTH OF STAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031764060     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(98)00223-3     Document Type: Article

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