Low utility of lower extremity ultrasound prior to application of sequential compression device in critically ill adults.
1 Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Eliane
E
Younes
2 Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Fady
F
Haddad
1 Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Hani
H
Tamim
1 Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ali
A
Taher
1 Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Imad
I
BouAkl
1 Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.|3 The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Hassan A
HA
Chami
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*
Doppler ultrasound; duplex ultrasound; lower extremity; thromboembolism; venous thrombosis