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Deep vein thrombosis in acute spinal cord injury . STUDY DESIGN Randomized study . OBJECTIVES To find out the incidence of deep vein thrombosis ( DVT ) in acute spinal cord injury ( SCI ) patients with and without therapeutic prophylaxis . SETTING Patients admitted in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation , SMS Medical College , Jaipur , India . METHODS All 297 patients received physical therapy measures and were randomly divided into two groups . 166 patients received prophylactic heparin , whereas 131 patients did not . RESULTS A total of three cases ( 1.8 % ) in study group and four cases ( 3 % ) in control group developed DVT . This difference was statistically insignificant ( P > 0.05 ) . CONCLUSION Incidence of DVT in SCI is low in our study .
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Intervention_Physical
therapeutic prophylaxis
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Intervention_Physical
physical therapy measures
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Intervention_Pharmacological
prophylactic heparin
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Outcome_Physical
Deep vein thrombosis
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Outcome_Other
difference was statistically insignificant
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Outcome_Physical
Incidence of DVT
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Outcome_Other
low
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Participant_Condition
acute spinal cord injury .
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Participant_Condition
patients with and without therapeutic prophylaxis
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Participant_Condition
Patients admitted in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation , SMS Medical College , Jaipur , India
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Participant_Sample-size
297
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Participant_Condition
received physical therapy measures