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No evidence to support IVCF if you can safely anticoagulate the patient and they haven't already failed therapeutic anticoagulation.? If clot is above knee popliteal, should fully anticoagulate.? If below knee, would monitor with serial duplexes, although this is not widely agreed upon.

According to the 2008 ACCP guidelines, fully anticoagulate incidental proximal DVT (above knee).

Dell....................


Forrest "Dell" Moore, MD, FACS
Trauma Critical Care Surgery
Co-director Trauma & Surgical ICU
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
eICU Intensivist/Critical Care Medicine
Banner Healthcare System
Phoenix, AZ
Cell 480 284 1703


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Place a removable greenfield and anticoagulate. Can help prevent propagation of 
the clot and reduce his post phlebitic syndrome(anectdotal).  Has he been tested 
for deficiencies like anti thrombin 3, factor5 leiden, S/C proteins, etc?
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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?

Errington C. Thompson, MD, FACS, FCCM
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