Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis

M. Arabi, Yaseen; Al-Hameed, Fahad; E. A. Burns, Karen; Mehta, Sangeeta; Alsolamy, Sami; Alshahrani, Mohammed; Mandourah, Yasser; A. Almekhlafi, Ghaleb; Almaani, Mohammed; Al Bshabshe, Ali; Finfer, Simon; Arshad, Zia; Khalid, Imran; Mehta, Yatin; Gaur, Atul; Hawa, Hassan; Buscher, Hergen; Lababidi, Hani; Al Aithan, Abdulsalam; Ann Abdukahil, Sheryl; Jose, Jesna; Afesh, Lara; Al‐Dawood, Abdulaziz

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1816150

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Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Feb 18, 2019

Authors:

Yaseen M. Arabi

Fahad Al-Hameed

Karen E. A. Burns

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Whether adjunctive intermittent pneumatic compression in critically ill patients receiving pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis would result in a lower incidence of deep-vein thrombosis than pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis alone is uncertain. METHODS: We randomly assigned patients who were ...

Subject

Intermittent pneumatic compression

Medicine

Deep vein

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