Journal article
Surveillance or no surveillance ultrasonography for deep vein thrombosis and outcomes of critically ill patients: a pre-planned sub-study of the PREVENT trial
Abstract
PurposeWe examined the association between surveillance for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) among medical-surgical critically ill patients by twice-weekly ultrasonography and 90-day all-cause mortality.MethodsThis was a pre-planned sub-study of the Pneumatic Compression for Preventing Venous Thromboembolism (PREVENT) trial (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02040103) that compared addition of intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) to pharmacologic …
Authors
Arabi YM; Burns KEA; Alsolamy SJ; Alshahrani MS; Al-Hameed FM; Arshad Z; Almaani M; Hawa H; Mandourah Y; Almekhlafi GA
Journal
Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 737–746
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
4 2020
DOI
10.1007/s00134-019-05899-1
ISSN
0342-4642