Minor trauma and venous thromboembolism: the threshold for antithrombotic prophylaxis
Alexandre Tran, Pamela L. Lutsey, Marc Carrier · 2024
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Alexandre Tran, Pamela Lutsey, and Marc Carrier review when blood clot prevention is worth it after minor injuries in a 2024 article. Serious trauma clearly raises clot risk, and badly injured hospital patients benefit from preventive blood thinners. Whether minor trauma, like a sprain treated in a clinic, raises risk enough to justify prevention was murky.
The review explains how injury severity is classified, then sums up studies of clot risk after minor trauma. Risk is not uniform: it depends on the injury and the patient's own factors. The authors lay out a practical approach for tailoring decisions, covering both patients admitted to hospital and those managed as outpatients. The goal is prevention where it helps, without overtreating small injuries.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alexandre Tran, Pamela L. Lutsey, Marc Carrier |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |