Main description:

Written by a team of world-leading experts in the field, who have published extensively

For primary care physicians, haematologists, surgeons and other healthcare professionals with an interest in thromboprophylaxis

Discusses both medical and surgical thromboprophylaxis and includes all relevant guidelines for thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy

Thoroughly revised and updated new edition

This second edition of the Handbook of Thromboprophylaxis expands upon the role of anticoagulants in clinical practice. In addition, it summarises key papers in the field and provides evidence-based guidelines for the use of anticoagulants in routine day-to-day practice.

Contents:

1 Introduction; 2 Thromboprophylaxis in medical patients; 3 Pharmacoeconomics of medical thromboprophylaxis; 4 Introduction to thromboprophylaxis in surgical patients; 5 Thromboprophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery; 6 Thromboprophylaxis in cancer surgery; 7 Thromboprophylaxis in other types of surgery; 8 Thromboprophylaxis in patients
on oral anticoagulant therapy; 9 The pharmacoeconomics of
surgical thromboprophylaxis; 10 Thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy