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Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the trauma intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee Clinical Consensus Document
Joseph F Rappold, Forest R Sheppard, Samuel P Carmichael II, Joseph Cuschieri, Eric Ley, Erika Rangel, Anupamaa J Seshadri, Christopher P Michetti
DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000643 Published 24 February 2021
Joseph F Rappold
1Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA
Forest R Sheppard
1Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA
Samuel P Carmichael II
2Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Joseph Cuschieri
3Surgery, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, Washington, USA
Eric Ley
4Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, California, USA
Erika Rangel
5Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Anupamaa J Seshadri
6Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Christopher P Michetti
7Surgery, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA

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Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the trauma intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee Clinical Consensus Document
Joseph F Rappold, Forest R Sheppard, Samuel P Carmichael II, Joseph Cuschieri, Eric Ley, Erika Rangel, Anupamaa J Seshadri, Christopher P Michetti
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Feb 2021, 6 (1) e000643; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000643

Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the trauma intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee Clinical Consensus Document
Joseph F Rappold, Forest R Sheppard, Samuel P Carmichael II, Joseph Cuschieri, Eric Ley, Erika Rangel, Anupamaa J Seshadri, Christopher P Michetti
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Feb 2021, 6 (1) e000643; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000643
Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the trauma intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee Clinical Consensus Document
Joseph F Rappold, Forest R Sheppard, Samuel P Carmichael II, Joseph Cuschieri, Eric Ley, Erika Rangel, Anupamaa J Seshadri, Christopher P Michetti
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open Feb 2021, 6 (1) e000643; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000643
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- Abstract
- Introduction
- Methods
- Traumatic brain injury
- Solid organ injury
- Epidural analgesia
- Imaging surveillance for DVT
- Prophylactic inferior vena cava filters
- Antifactor Xa monitoring and associated dose adjustments
- Viscoelastic monitoring and dose adjustment
- Weight-based dosing of enoxaparin in obesity
- Other high-risk scenarios and when to hold VTE prophylaxis
- Footnotes
- References
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