Battling the Conundrum of Bleeding and Clotting: Initiation of Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Traumatic Brain Injury after Neurosurgical Intervention
Although VTE rates were similar between early and late chemoprophylaxis initiation in patients with TBI who underwent neurosurgical intervention, the late cohort had lower mortality and risk of ICHE. Missed doses had an increased risk of VTE.
Authors
- Madison Harris
- James T Laughery
- Paula Ferrada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-904X)
- Claudine Jurkovitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8957-0100)
- Sanjeev R. Rastogi
- Richard Caplan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4117-597X)
- Jonathan B. Imran
- John Getchell
- Asanthi Ratnasekera
Institutions
- Christiana Care Health System (US)
- U.S. National Science Foundation (US)
- Inova Fairfax Hospital (US)
- ORCID (US)
- Drexel University (US)
- University of Delaware (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/xcs.0000000000001611
- Primary Topic
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00