Perioperative Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Abdominal Surgery Patients Based on the Caprini or the Padua Risk Score-A Single Centre Prospective Observational Study.

ABSTRACT: Surgical patients should receive perioperative thromboprophylaxis based on risk assessment, and the Caprini score is validated for this purpose. Whether the Padua score, originally devised for medical patients, can be useful in surgical patients remains to be fully clarified. This study aimed to evaluate perioperative thromboprophylaxis based on the Caprini or the Padua score in elective abdominal surgery. A total of 223 patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery for malignant or benign disease were prospectively evaluated. The patients were divided into two groups in which thromboprophylaxis was prescribed according to either the Caprini score (n = 122) or the Padua score (n = 101). Patients with high-risk scores in both groups received nadroparin. The alternate risk score in each gro

SUBMITTER: Klen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9694484 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature