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Most practicing orthopaedic surgeons currently use a pharmacologic agent as a means of prophylaxis for deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism following total hip arthroplasty, total knee ...

Anticoagulants, antiplatelets, and thrombolytics for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of venous and arterial thrombosis.

However, diagnosis and treatment alone are inadequate for hospitalized patients who are at high risk, in whom asymptomatic deep-vein thrombosis is common and death from pulmonary embolism usually ...

Successful DVT prophylaxis with pharmacologic agents and adjunctive treatment modalities depends on both consistency and accuracy.

The study examined efficacy in 7,441 patients according to a composite outcome score consisting of either the occurrence of asymptomatic or symptomatic proximal deep vein thrombosis (DVT), non ...

Missed doses of prophylactic anticoagulation account for much of the DVT that occurs in surgery and trauma patients. A second study blamed suboptimal prophylaxis for failure to find that hospitals ...

Prophylaxis against deep-vein thrombosis in hospitalized patients remains underused. We hypothesized that the use of a computer-alert program to encourage prophylaxis might reduce the frequency of ...

Aspirin: An appropriate prophylaxis for DVT Given ease of use, effectiveness, availability and patient compliance, aspirin is my choice.

Even with prophylaxis, hip arthroplasty patients carry an overall rate of DVT of 10% to 15% (proximal DVT 3% to 7%) as determined by routine venography at the time of discharge.