MedSysEvidence-graded reference

MedSys / Blood clots & DVT / All chapters

Every chapter

Seven chapters, about 6,731 words — roughly 31 minutes end to end. Read them in order or go straight to the one you need.

Recognising it

The leg, the arm, the skin, and the rare ones.

  1. Recognising a clot

    The leg signs and what else causes them, the arm, the clot under the skin that is not always harmless, the rare ones in the brain and the abdomen, and when it is 999. 5 min.

Diagnosis and treatment

The pathway with its time limits, the treatment, and the sites the pathway does not cover.

  1. The leg pathway: what should happen and how fast

    The Wells DVT score, D-dimer, the ultrasound within four hours, the repeat scan a week later that is often forgotten, the calf question, and pregnancy. 4 min.

  2. Treatment, and the leg afterwards

    Tablets at home for most, who gets the clot removed, filters, how long, and the post-thrombotic leg: what prevents it and what does not. 6 min.

  3. Unusual sites: arm, abdomen, brain and skin

    Arm clots and lines, the athlete's clot, portal and mesenteric veins, cerebral venous thrombosis, and superficial thrombophlebitis with its 3-cm rule. 5 min.

Prevention

Hospital, surgery, travel and hormones.

  1. Preventing clots: hospital, surgery, travel and hormones

    The risk assessment every admission must have, the injections after surgery and for how long, the sleeves, and the everyday factors that matter. 5 min.

For doctors

NG158, the BSH and NG89 on one page.

  1. For doctors: DVT, unusual sites and prophylaxis on one page

    NG158 by recommendation number for DVT, the unusual-site positions from the BSH, NG89 prophylaxis durations, and the US differences. 4 min.

Printable

Take it to the visit.

  1. Printable DVT checklist

    What should happen at the first visit, in the first week, and at three months. 2 min.