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When would you prescribe pharmacologic DVT prophylaxis in bedbound neuromuscular patients?

e.g. ALS
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Neurology · University of Minnesota
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Short answer:

  1. I would still not prescribe pharmacologic DVT prophylaxis routinely for all my bedbound neuromuscular patients in the outpatient setting
  2. The point raised by the question is more than reasonable, and
  3. Ideally a randomized trial of prophylaxis vs placebo should occur before we change our pr...

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