Venous thromboembolism prevention post neck of femur fractures – does it make a difference?

Neck of femur fractures predispose patients to venous thromboembolism (VTE). NICE has issued guideline 46 to reduce this risk through the use of antithrombic agents. We audited our department's VTE practise by reviewing the clinical notes of 123 consecutive patients with no exclusions. We found...

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Autores principales: Faroug, Radwane, Konnuru, Shireesha, Min, San S, Hussain, Fazleenah, Ampat, George
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Original Clinical Investigation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2447826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18582377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-9560-6-8
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author Faroug, Radwane
Konnuru, Shireesha
Min, San S
Hussain, Fazleenah
Ampat, George
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description Neck of femur fractures predispose patients to venous thromboembolism (VTE). NICE has issued guideline 46 to reduce this risk through the use of antithrombic agents. We audited our department's VTE practise by reviewing the clinical notes of 123 consecutive patients with no exclusions. We found our compliance to be a low 6%. We also found that patients were likely to be given low molecular heparin (LMWH) only during their hospital stay. Reasons for the low adherence were probably secondary to confusion caused by the multiple thromboprophylaxis protocols used in our department. The correlation between duration of heparin administration and length of hospital stay was due to logistical difficulty in administering VTE prophylaxis out of hospital setting.
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spelling pubmed-24478262008-07-10 Venous thromboembolism prevention post neck of femur fractures – does it make a difference? Faroug, Radwane Konnuru, Shireesha Min, San S Hussain, Fazleenah Ampat, George Thromb J Original Clinical Investigation Neck of femur fractures predispose patients to venous thromboembolism (VTE). NICE has issued guideline 46 to reduce this risk through the use of antithrombic agents. We audited our department's VTE practise by reviewing the clinical notes of 123 consecutive patients with no exclusions. We found our compliance to be a low 6%. We also found that patients were likely to be given low molecular heparin (LMWH) only during their hospital stay. Reasons for the low adherence were probably secondary to confusion caused by the multiple thromboprophylaxis protocols used in our department. The correlation between duration of heparin administration and length of hospital stay was due to logistical difficulty in administering VTE prophylaxis out of hospital setting. BioMed Central 2008-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2447826/ /pubmed/18582377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-9560-6-8 Text en Copyright © 2008 Faroug et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Venous thromboembolism prevention post neck of femur fractures – does it make a difference?
title_full_unstemmed Venous thromboembolism prevention post neck of femur fractures – does it make a difference?
title_short Venous thromboembolism prevention post neck of femur fractures – does it make a difference?
title_sort venous thromboembolism prevention post neck of femur fractures – does it make a difference?
topic Original Clinical Investigation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2447826/
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