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Implementing Nurse-Specialist-Delivered-Education To Improve Application Compliance Of Ordered Intermittent Pneumatic Compression, Mitchel R. Perry
Implementing Nurse-Specialist-Delivered-Education To Improve Application Compliance Of Ordered Intermittent Pneumatic Compression, Mitchel R. Perry
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Healthcare-associated (HA) venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the formation of a potentially deadly blood clot that can occur in patients as a result of hospitalization, surgery, procedures, etc. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022a). HA-VTE is the number one most preventable cause of death in hospitals. The organization at which this author is associated experienced 48 VTE events during the first six months of 2020 (Mainer, 2020). Over 50% of these events demonstrate a lack of appropriate physical or mechanical VTE prophylaxis application per provider order, including sequential compression devices (SCD). The use of intermittent pneumatic compression devices (IPCD) (i.e., …