A comparison of discharge and two-week duplex ultrasound screening protocols for deep venous thrombosis detection following primary total joint arthroplasty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2380-2385

  Dhupar, Scott ^a   Iorio, Richard ^a   Healy, William L ^a   Dhimitri, Kenneth ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 33750801662     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200611000-00009     Document Type: Article

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