Open AccessDeep vein thrombosis in medical and surgical Intensive Care Unit patients in a Tertiary Care Centre in North India: Incidence and risk factors
Author(s) -
Ashish Kumar,
Yatin Mehta,
Tariq Ali,
Mukesh Kumar Gupta,
Joby V. George
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.209760
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , deep vein , intensive care unit , venous thrombosis , thrombosis , pulmonary embolism , surgery , physics , optics
Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis is underutilized, and there is a paucity of data reflecting the incidence of DVT in Indian Intensive Care Unit (ICU) population. We sought to evaluate the incidence and risk factors for DVT in medical and surgical ICU patients with DVT prophylaxis.