Tools to Help Prevent Blood Clots

The best way to prevent blood clots is to use mechanical, alternating pressure boots. Hospitals have loads of these special boots on hand and your loved one should automatically get them after surgery and for other high-risk conditions.

• If your loved one falls into the risk category for mechanical compression boots and he/she is not fitted for them by the hospital, insist on them. Keep insisting and persisting until they are on your patient’s legs!
  

• Blood clots can also form after hospital discharge, with patients remaining at high risk for at least 30 days. At discharge, be sure to cover prevention and monitoring.
  
  • This is a good time to ask about using compression stockings to help prevent blood clots while recovering at home.

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• What’s the Harm in Health Care?

  One-third of all hospital patients are harmed or killed by accident every year in American hospitals -- about 13 million patients.

  
  Preventable hospital accidents claim almost 300,000 lives -- equal to 3 jets crashing every single day of the year in America, with no survivors.

  
  Most of these deaths and injury are among older patients, and most result from a strained health care system seriously short on nurses and other critical resources.
  

• Our Solution

  CampaignZERO offers simple explanations about how common hospital hazards occur and easy checklists to help families safeguard their loved ones' care in the hospital.

• Why Checklists for Families?

  Every patient needs a family member or friend with them in the hospital -- yet few of us are prepared for this important role.

  
  Our simple little checklists can be a big help.

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