Subcutaneous heparin does not increase postoperative complications in neurosurgical patients: An institutional experience

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 250-254

  Hacker, Robert I ^a   Ritter, Garry ^a   Nelson, Chris ^a   Knobel, Denis ^a   Gupta, Rajeev ^a   Hopkins, Kristen ^a   Marini, Corrado P ^a   Barrera, Rafael ^a  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

DVT prophylaxis; Neurosurgical patients; Post operative bleed; Subcutaneous heparin

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROPHYLAXIS; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VASOSPASM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NEW YORK CITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84861183870     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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