Thromboseprophylaxe bei Intensivpatienten Intermittierende pneumatische Kompression zur Thromboseprophylaxe: Bleibt alles anders? Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis. Arabi YM, Al-Hameed F, Burns KEA, Mehta S,...
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Thromboseprophylaxe bei Intensivpatienten Intermittierende pneumatische Kompression zur Thromboseprophylaxe: Bleibt alles anders? Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis. Arabi YM, Al-Hameed F, Burns KEA, Mehta S, Alsolamy SJ, Alshahrani MS, Mandourah Y, et al. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:1305-1315 BACKGROUND: Whether adjunctive intermittent pneumatic com- the control group. Intermittent pneumatic compression was applied pression in critically ill patients receiving pharmacologic thrombo- for a median of 22 hours (interquartile range, 21 to 23) daily for a prophylaxis would result in a lower incidence of deep-vein thrombosis median of 7 days (interquartile range, 4 to 13). The primary outcome than pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis alone is uncertain. occurred in 37 of 957 patients (3.9%) in the pneumatic compression METHODS: We randomly assigned patients who were considered group and in 41 of 985 patients (4.2%) in the control group (rela- adults ac
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