Life-Threatening Higher Blood Clot Risk in Longer Surgeries

The longer the duration of surgery, the higher the risk of a life-threatening blood clot, suggests a first large-scale, quantitative national study of the risk across all surgical procedures. The Northwestern Medicine study was published Dec. 3 in iJAMA Surgery/i, the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. The finding will help guide surgical decision-making by enabling surgeons and patients to better understand the potential risk ...

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