Study and Review for Tomorrow’s pt visit
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
Signs & Symptoms:
- Often few symptoms, but pt may c/o pain, swelling, redness, and increased warmth to the affected areas
- Risk factors: obesity, age, trauma, cancer, immobility, smoking, use of oral contraceptives, recent surgery
Lab/Test:
- Ultrasound to affected areas
- D-Dimer test (useful… as a negative predictive test for DVT… which if a D-Dimer is negative, it is unlikely that the pt have DVT)
