Common Medical Protocol for Patients with DVT:
- Recent medical management of patients with DVT’s include the use of acute anticoagulation with heparin or low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) followed by long-term intervention with warfarin.
- When full-dose heparin is used it has been found to reduce the incidence of PE among patients with proximal DVT. For Low-molecular-weight heparin demonstrated at least equal efficacy to heparin in multiple trials.
- Aspirin combined with early mobilization, regional anesthesia, foot pumps, and improved surgical techniques is safer than and equally efficacious as other chemoprophylaxis agents.
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