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.

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• 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?

  It's a fact: 1-in-3 hospital patients is accidentally harmed every year in U.S. hospitals.

  
  

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  We have smart, caring nurses and doctors -- but hospital care is complex. Resources are strained. And everyone suffers when patients are harmed.

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