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Open Access
01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Antiembolic stockings and pneumatic compression devices in a medical-surgical thromboprophylaxis trial
Authors:
N Zytaruk, D Heels-Ansdell, S Vallance, J Marshall, Y Skrobik, DJ Cooper, S Finfer, I Seppelt, M Ostermann, I Qushmaq, M Alsultan, Y Arabi, J Alhashemi, M Al-Hazmi, A Alzem, N Shaikh, Y Mandourah, DJ Cook
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
A recent randomized trial (CLOTS-1) has called into question the utility of antiembolic stockings (AESs); another trial (CLOTS-2) suggested harm with below-knee compared with above-knee AESs. AESs and pneumatic compression devices (PCD)s could represent important co-interventions in a heparin thromboprophylaxis trial if exposure was lengthy and frequent. Our objective was to document the use of AESs and PCDs applied per protocol and by protocol violation in a trial comparing UFH versus LMWH in medical-surgical ICU patients (NCT00182143). …
