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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 95-B, Issue SUPP_1 | Pages 37 - 37
1 Jan 2013
Bayley E Brown S Howard P
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Aim

To assess the incidence of fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) following elective total knee replacement (TKR) with a standardised multi-modal prophylaxis regime in a large teaching DGH over a 10 year period.

Material and methods

Information was gathered from a prospective audit database, utilising clinical coding for TKR and those that had died within 42 and 90 days. The 10 years from April 2000 were analysed to establish both 42 and 90 day mortality rates.

A multi-modal prophylaxis regime for all patients included regional anaesthesia (when possible), mechanical prophylaxis (Flo-tron calf garment per-operatively, AV impulse boots until mobile and anti-embolism stockings for 6 weeks), mobilisation within 24 hours and 75mg aspirin for 4 weeks.

A case note review was performed to ascertain the causes of death. Where a patient had been referred to the coroner, the coroner's office was contacted for PM results.