Clinically important deep vein thrombosis in the intensive care unit: a survey of intensivists.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Outside the intensive care unit (ICU), clinically important deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is usually defined as a symptomatic event that leads to objective radiologic confirmation and subsequent treatment. The objective of the present survey is to identify the patient factors and radiologic features of lower limb DVT that intensivists consider more or less likely to make a DVT clinically important in ICU patients.

Methods

Our definition of clinically important DVT was a DVT likely to result in short-term or long-term morbidity or mortality if left untreated, as opposed to a DVT that is unlikely to have important consequences. We asked respondents to indicate the likelihood that patient factors and ultrasonographic features make a DVT clinically important using a fi

SUBMITTER: Cook D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC468908 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature