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Minerva Chirurgica 2004 February;59(1):79-84

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language: Italian

Antithrombotic prophylaxis in day surgery: proposal of a clinical protocol

Di Martino N., Izzo G., Fabozzi M., Sodano B., Monaco L., Torelli F.

The considerable diffusion of the day surgery has new problems such as the use of antithrombotic prophylaxis, now carried out systematically in major surgery. An the basis of the poor data present in the literature, a protocol of study is proposed to evaluate the real effectiveness of this type of prophylaxis in DS, dividing the patients into 3 groups, according to the patient's risk factors to the intervention and to the disease.