According to a multi-center prospective cohort study, surgical patients who have recently acquired a COVID-19 infection are more likely to develop fatal postoperative blood clots. Researchers discovered that patients undergoing surgery with peri-operative or recent SARS-CoV-2 infection were more likely to develop postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) than those with no history of infection. What was the study about?
The study included data from 128,013 patients, from 1630 hospitals across 115 countries. The researchers discovered that VTE was independently related to 30-day mortality, increasing the probability of death in previously infected patients by five times within 30 days following surgery. Patients admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 had previously been reported to have a high risk of VTE, ranging from 9% to 26% despite the use of preventive medications and as high as 31%…
