ORLANDO, Fla. — Patients who underwent hip fracture surgery and were prescribed deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis for 28 days or more had a 67% lower chance of death and significantly lower ...

The patent’s assignee is Continuous Motionflow, Llc. News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “It is estimated that more than a million ...

Institutional Review Board approval and informed consent were obtained from all subjects. Forty healthy subjects between the ages of 50 and 80 years participated in the study. Half of the subjects ...

active/passive ankle motion exercises. Rehabilitation after hip arthroplasty is started earlier and is more aggressive today than at its inception 25 years ago. Early mobilization has been proven to ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer announced that the FDA has accepted for review a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Eliquis (apixaban), for prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which ...

Functional impairment (FI) after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and impact on quality of life (QOL). Bupropion for hot flashes control in breast cancer survivors: A prospective, double-blind ...

Venous thromboembolism is a frequent complication of total hip or total knee arthroplasty, with serious clinical and economic consequences. It is largely preventable with adherence to evidence-based ...

Rivaroxaban (Xarelto; Bayer/Janssen) has gained an additional indication, this time for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in acutely ill hospitalized patients at increased risk for ...

antithrombin III [human] Thrombate III inj Hereditary antithrombin III (AT-III) deficiency in surgical or obstetrical procedures and thromboembolism Infuse over 10–20mins. Dose (units required) = ...

Stakeholders concurred that the occurrence of VTE events is a significant public health concern. According to Ralph J. Riello III, PharmD, “It is a problem often that hospitals do not know that they ...