CPT codes are granted and regulated by the AMA CPT Editorial Panel and are widely used by government payers, including Medicare and Medicaid, and commercial health plans, to describe healthcare ...
(HealthDay News) — For patients in intensive care units who need a catheter, placement in the subclavian vein appears to lower the risk of bloodstream infection and deep-vein thrombosis, compared to ...
Objective: To report an unusual cause of femoral vein compression in a spinal cord injury (SCI) patient. Design: A case report of a SCI patient in whom the strap of a urinal produced compression of ...
AS hospitalized patients in increasing numbers survive a multiplicity of other medical and surgical crises, pulmonary embolism continues as a chief immediate cause of death. Although anticoagulant ...
A 35-year-old woman with a long-standing history of lower extremity swelling developed worsening symptoms of excessive vaginal bleeding, abdominal discomfort, and severe bilateral lower extremity ...
1 Department of Orthopaedics, Sports Injuries Unit, “Agios Pavlos” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2 Department of Radiology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece ...
THE interruption of deep venous pathways in the treatment and prevention of pulmonary embolism has come to be a generally accepted surgical procedure. The preferred sites for division when deep venous ...