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Editorial
. 2019 May;11(5):1734-1737.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.05.31.

Intermittent pneumatic compression on top of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis in intensive care: added value or added cost?

Christophe Vandenbriele  1 , Lorenz Van der Linden  2 , Thomas Vanassche  1 , Peter Verhamme  1
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Editorial

Intermittent pneumatic compression on top of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis in intensive care: added value or added cost?

Christophe Vandenbriele et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 May.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: Dr. Verhamme reports grants and personal fees from Bayer Healthcare, grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, grants and personal fees from Pfizer, grants and personal fees from BMS, grants and personal fees from Daiichi-Sankyo, grants and personal fees from Leo Pharma, personal fees from Portola and Medtronic, outside the submitted work. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Figure 1
An overview of current recommended strategies for in hospital thromboprophylaxis each targeting a specific component of Virchow’s triad.
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Comment on

  • Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis.
    Arabi YM, Al-Hameed F, Burns KEA, Mehta S, Alsolamy SJ, Alshahrani MS, Mandourah Y, Almekhlafi GA, Almaani M, Al Bshabshe A, Finfer S, Arshad Z, Khalid I, Mehta Y, Gaur A, Hawa H, Buscher H, Lababidi H, Al Aithan A, Abdukahil SAI, Jose J, Afesh LY, Al-Dawood A; Saudi Critical Care Trials Group. Arabi YM, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 4;380(14):1305-1315. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1816150. Epub 2019 Feb 18. N Engl J Med. 2019. PMID: 30779530 Clinical Trial.

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