Thromboprophylaxis after multiple trauma: what treatment and for how long?

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2009, Pages

  yenna, Zachary C ^a   Roberts, Craig ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple trauma; Thromboembolism; Thromboprophylaxis

Indexed keywords

ANTIVITAMIN K; DABIGATRAN ETEXILATE; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PENTASACCHARIDE; RIVAROXABAN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAD INJURY; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEG INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; DEVICE REMOVAL; FACTOR XA; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICES; MORPHOLINES; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POLYSACCHARIDES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; THIOPHENES; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 71849114582     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.10.042     Document Type: Article

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