Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis.
Yaseen M ArabiFahad Al-HameedKaren E A BurnsSangeeta MehtaSami J AlsolamyMohammed S AlshahraniYasser MandourahGhaleb A AlmekhlafiMohammed AlmaaniAli Al BshabsheSimon FinferZia ArshadImran KhalidYatin MehtaAtul GaurHassan HawaHergen BuscherHani LababidiAbdulsalam Al AithanSheryl A I AbdukahilJesna JoseLara Y AfeshAbdulaziz Al-Dawoodnull nullPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2019)
Among critically ill patients who were receiving pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis, adjunctive intermittent pneumatic compression did not result in a significantly lower incidence of proximal lower-limb deep-vein thrombosis than pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis alone. (Funded by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center; PREVENT ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02040103; Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN44653506.).