[CITATION][C] A demonstration that the risk of postoperative deep venous thrombosis is reduced by stimulating the calf muscles electrically during the operation

FSA Doran, HM White - British Journal of Surgery, 1967 - Wiley Online Library
FSA Doran, HM White
British Journal of Surgery, 1967Wiley Online Library
IF deep femoral thrombosis complicates a patient's recovery from a surgical operation it
lengthens the time he has to stay in hospital and exposes him to the risk of a pulmonary
embolus. To reduce this risk a course of anticoagulant therapy has to be given. The facts of
morbid anatomy which underlie this risk of a pulmonary embolus are no longer a matter of
serious dispute. The majority of the pulmonary emboli which occur after a surgical operation
are clots which have been displaced from a thrombosed vein in one of the patient's lower …
IF deep femoral thrombosis complicates a patient’s recovery from a surgical operation it lengthens the time he has to stay in hospital and exposes him to the risk of a pulmonary embolus. To reduce this risk a course of anticoagulant therapy has to be given.
The facts of morbid anatomy which underlie this risk of a pulmonary embolus are no longer a matter of serious dispute. The majority of the pulmonary emboli which occur after a surgical operation are clots which have been displaced from a thrombosed vein in one of the patient’s lower limbs (Frykholm, 1940; Gibbs, 1957; Sevitt and Gallagher, 1961). All the factors responsible for the formation of a clot in one of the veins in the lower limbs are not yet known, but it is generally believed that venous stasis is one of the important factors which produce thrombosis in flowing blood (Boyd, 1947; Hadfield, 1950; Wright, Maizels, and Jepson, 1952; Gibbs, 1957,
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