Management of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Emergency Departments; Time to Change the Viewpoint
Journal Title: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Clot formation within a deep vein is called deep vein thrombosis (DVT). It occurs in about 100 persons per 100,000 population each year in the United States and leads to about 600,000 pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) cases and also causes 60,000 deaths annually (1, 2). For many years, unfractionated heparin (UFH) and warfarin have been used for treatment of DVT and preven-tion of PTE (3). This approach needs hospitalization and necessitates close monitoring by partial thromboplastin time (PTT) measurement (4).
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