Articles tagged ‘venous thromboembolism’

The new European Society of Cardiology (ESC)guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF), have now included guidance on the role of a novel oral treatment, dabigatran etexilate, for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with AF (1)

The All-Party Parliamentary Thrombosis Group (APPTG) has recently welcomed the Department of Health’s (DH) decision to mandate venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention in the Operating Framework for the NHS in 2010/11. The All Party Group has been campaigning for its inclusion as a key step in reducing up to 25,000 annual avoidable deaths and saving the NHS over half a billion pounds a year.