Thromboprophylaxis in Special Patients: Multiple Trauma, Head Trauma, and Spine Surgery
There is a significant clinical association between a traumatic event and the development of venous thromboembolism (VTE). In this chapter, we are reviewing VTE in patients with multiple trauma, head trauma, or acute spinal cord injury and in those underg
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Thromboembolism in Orthopedic Surgery
Editor Juan V. Llau, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care University Hospital of Valencia Valencia Spain
ISBN 978-1-4471-4335-2 ISBN 978-1-4471-4336-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4336-9 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
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Preface
Venous thromboembolism in any of its kinds of presentation, pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, represents a major public health problem, affecting hundreds of thousands of people each year. Patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery have a particularly high risk for developing venous thromboembolism, and the need for thromboprophylaxis, most commonly pharmacological prophylaxis, has become standard of care for many years. In this field, the rationale for thromboprophylaxis has been widely demonstrated, as seen in the decrease of venographic and symptomatic deep vein thrombosis and symptomatic, asymptomatic, and fatal pulmonary embolism. But, due to the natural history of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery (mainly joint arthroplasty or hip fracture surgery), venous thro
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