Venous blood flow, thromboembolism and below knee cast immobilisation for trauma
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has a background incidence of between 0.7 and 2.69 per 1000 per year (L. N. Roberts et al., 2013). Risk factors are either permanent or transient. Permanent risk factors include thrombophilia (80 x increase risk if homozygous for factor V Leiden), cancer (58 x increase r...
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Cardiff University
2017
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732268 |