The Incidence of Perioperative Deep Venous Thromboses of the Lower Extremities

University of Illinois

Status: Completed

Conditions: Perioperative DVTs

Treatments: Procedure: Duplex scan of lower extremities

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01300832

10-589-A

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study's hypothesis is that there are some patients who come for surgery who have asymptomatic clots in their lower extremities upon their arrival to the hospital for their surgical admission. We will be performing duplex studies of the subjects' legs before their surgery to determine how often clots are present. We will also perform duplex scans of the legs after the subjects' surgeries to determine what factors (surgical, anesthetic, co-morbidities)are correlated with the development of DVTs.

Enrollment: 271 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18+ and consentable

Exclusion criteria

• Anticoagulation therapy or known DVT

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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271 participants in 1 patient group

Duplex scan

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects undergo preoperative and post-operative duplex scanning of the lower extremities

Treatment:

Procedure: Duplex scan of lower extremities