Objectives Venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains highly prevalent among medically ill patients and often leads to increased mortality. Therefore, this study aimed to assess compliance with VTE ...

Twelve recommendations were agreed on by the panel from Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. HealthDay News — Recommendations for anticoagulant prophylaxis for pediatric ...

6 Department of Nursing, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China Objectives This study aims to ...

Age-adjusted D-dimer cutoffs can safely rule out deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in many suspected cases, according to the ADJUST-DVT trial. For patients ages 50 and older with a nonhigh or unlikely ...

A prospective validation study found that age-adjusted D-dimer thresholds can safely rule out lower extremity DVT for more people with low to intermediate suspicion in the first place. The ...

Bucks All-Star guard Damian Lillard has been sidelined since late March with deep vein thrombosis in his right calf. From NBA.com News Services Damian Lillard has been cleared of his deep vein ...

The optimal duration of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in acute stroke patients is unknown. This subanalysis of the Extended Prophylaxis for Venous ThromboEmbolism in Acutely Ill Medical Patients ...

When most of us think of a serious medical emergency, we usually think of sudden events such as heart attacks, strokes or serious injuries from a car crash. But some threats develop quietly, with ...

Prevention doesn’t come easy. The bar is high. The decision to act medically because an untoward outcome could occur means creating intervention side-effect risk that’s otherwise absent. Large patient ...

The recent research entitled “Trends and benefits of early hip arthroplasty for femoral neck fracture in China: a national cohort study” demonstrates the great clinical benefit of early total hip ...