Clinically important venous thromboembolism in pediatric critical care: a Canadian survey

PURPOSE: Pediatric venous thromboembolism (VTE) is becoming an increasingly recognized morbidity associated with critical illness. The objective of this survey is to identify the patient factors and radiological features that pediatric intensivists consider more or less likely to make a venous thrombosis (VTE) clinically important in their patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Our definition of clinically important VTE was a VTE likely to result in …