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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Patients undergoing ACL reconstruction at risk for DVT, but may be asymptomatic Study identified 47% DVT risk after arthroscopic ACL reconstruction in patients over 30 years old.

Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis with the low–molecular-weight heparin dalteparin was not associated with an excessive anticoagulant effect among critically ill patients with severe renal ...

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 ...

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.