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Design limitations may have compromised DVT intervention trial
May 14, 2018
WASHINGTON – The preferred evaluation – intravascular ultrasound – was not used.
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Does warfarin cause acute kidney injury?
May 2, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Consider increased monitoring of renal function in certain patients.
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VTE risk after bariatric surgery should be assessed
April 22, 2018
SEATTLE – Thromboelastometry can play a role in identifying bariatric surgery patients at risk for VTE.
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Session tackles oncology emergencies
April 10, 2018
“The real challenge in managing sick cancer patients lies in the data-free zones.”
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Two scoring systems helpful in diagnosing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
April 8, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Both the 4Ts Score or the HIT Expert Probability (HEP) Score performed well in a real-world study.
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Few acutely ill hospitalized patients receive VTE prophylaxis
April 2, 2018
The results “imply that there is a significantly unmet need for effective VTE prophylaxis in both the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.”
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Protocol helped identify hospitalized children at risk for VTE
March 30, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Children with hospital-acquired VTE tended to be more medically complex, a single-center study showed.
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Blood transfusions are dropping in U.S. hospitals
February 27, 2018
The frequency of red blood cell transfusions declined between 2011 and 2014, but what’s driving the change?
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Transfusion threshold and bleeding risk in malignancy-related thrombocytopenia
February 22, 2018
What are laboratory predictors of bleeding in patients with thrombocytopenia, and what is the effect of platelet or RBC transfusion on actively bleeding patients?
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When should I transfuse a patient who has anemia?
December 19, 2017
In the presence of active blood loss or hemodynamic instability, blood transfusion should be considered independent of the initial hemoglobin level.
