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ErringtonWhat prompted the duplex scan?  Were there clinical signs of DVT or
is this screening?
Karim

2009/3/15 Errington Thompson <errington at erringtonthompson.com>

> Trauma patient in the ICU on the vent.  The 48-year-old gentleman who was
> involved in a motor vehicle crash.  The patient was found to have the
> following injuries -- 4 rib fractures, pulmonary contusion, T4/T5 chance
> fracture without neurologic deficit and a scapular fracture.  The patient
> is
> on prophylactic doses of a low molecular weight heparin.  An ultrasound
> seven days after the injury reveal a nonocclusive thrombus in the popliteal
> vein.
>
> Treatment?
>
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