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News items on 'Deep Vein Thrombosis'
'Pear and apple' shape a DVT risk
(BBC 29/10/2009)
Women who carry excess weight on the hips and thighs, and apple-shaped men who carry it on the waist, risk dangerous blood clots, say experts. Being overweight per se is risky, but where the fat accumulates is also critical, say the Danish scientists. They tracked more than 50,000 men and women to see how many suffered a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or a clot in the lung called pulmonary embolism (PE). The findings are published in the journal Circulation.
DVT sufferer's legs amputated after nurse missed vital jabs
(The Scotsman 23/09/2009)
A NURSE failed to give an elderly man limb-saving injections in a blunder which resulted in both his legs being amputated. Stella Nythinya, 32, claimed she had given the man, in his sixties, five anti-clotting injections to treat deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). But he was rushed to hospital and had his legs removed after one of his feet turned blue. He later died but it was not proved amputation was the cause. The syringes, some unused, were later found in a clinical waste bin.
Tips to prevent blood clots while traveling
(World health - EU Monitor 20/06/2009)
In 2003 David Bloom, a 40 year-old news reporter, died suddenly from a blood clot to his lungs. Bloom most likely developed the clot first in his leg during a flight from the US to Iraq. According to preventdvt.org 300,000 die annually in the US as the result of blood clots, including those that developed during prolonged travel as well as other causes. Those over the age of 60 are at increased risk.
Stockings 'no stroke clot help'
(BBC 27/05/2009)
Surgical stockings do not cut stroke patients' risk of developing blood clots, research suggests. Doctors commonly use the stockings as way to minimise the risk of clots forming and travelling to the lungs or heart, where they can be fatal. But a Lancet study, by the University of Edinburgh, found they had little positive effect. The team estimates cutting stocking use could save the NHS around £7m and 320,000 hours of nursing time a year.
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Blood clot deaths 'preventable'
(BBC 11/05/2009)
Thousands of lives a year could be saved by more effective measures to prevent hospital patients developing blood clots, say experts. Around 32,000 UK hospital patients a year die after developing a blood clot. But the charity Lifeblood says around 70% of these deaths could be prevented by better awareness, proper assessment and the use of simple measures. These include giving patients anti-thrombosis socks like those now routinely issued on long-haul flights.
Avoidable blood clots 'still kill too many hospital patients'
(Telegraph 19/11/2008)
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Thrombosis warns that many hospitals are still not assessing patients for the risk of a clot. The MPs called for testing to be made mandatory and for hospitals to be penalised if they don't screen patients, in an attempt to prevent some of the 25,000 deaths from hospital acquired Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) every year.
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