Why the study?
Does full therapeutic intravenous heparin reduce the incidence of deep venous thrombosis compared to 1,000 units of heparin daily in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Population
116 patients with acute myocardial infarction
Comparison
Full therapeutic heparin dosage intravenously vs 1,000 units of heparin daily
Design
RCT, Randomly allocated
Authors
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Therapeutic IV heparin confers no DVT prevention advantage over low-dose in acute MI; challenges routine use of full anticoagulation for this purpose.
Does full therapeutic intravenous heparin reduce the incidence of deep venous thrombosis compared to 1,000 units of heparin daily in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Full therapeutic intravenous heparin does not significantly reduce the incidence of deep venous thrombosis compared to low-dose heparin (1,000 units daily) in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Habersberger et al. (1973) studied this question.
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