Philipp Lichte, Philipp Kobbe, Khalid Almahmoud, Roman Pfeifer, Hagen Andruszkow, Frank Hildebrand, Rolf Lefering, Hans-Christoph Pape
INTRODUCTION: Thrombo-embolic events after trauma are considered to be life-threatening complications. Our aim was to determine the incidence of arterial and venous thrombo-embolic events (TE) in severely-injured trauma patients, and its associated risk factors by using a large trauma registry. METHODS: Patients' data from the TraumaRegister DGU® (TR-DGU) were screened for TE (DVT [symptomatic deep vein thrombosis], PE [symptomatic pulmonary embolism], MI [myocardial infarction], and stroke) through the clinical course of severely injured adult trauma patients from January 2005 to December 2012...
May 2015: International Orthopaedics