Trends in Perioperative Venous Thromboembolism Associated with Major Noncardiac Surgery

Abstract Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common vascular complication of noncardiac surgery. Methods We evaluated national trends in perioperative in-hospital VTE incidence, management, and outcomes using a large database of hospital admissions from the United...

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Main Authors: Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, Navdeep Gupta, Yu Guo, Thomas S. Maldonado, John W. Eikelboom, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Sripal Bangalore, Jeffrey S. Berger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2017-07-01
Series:TH Open
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0037-1605360