1st National VTE Exemplar Centre Study Day

Held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 18th March

 

Preventing VTE - a vital patient safety initiative

 

All presentations provided in Microsoft PowerPoint format -

 

		Dr Roopen Arya, King’s College Hospital		Introduction: Preventing VTE in hospitalised patients
		Dr Rhona MacLean, Sheffield		Risk assessment for VTE
		Professor Ajay Kakkar, Thrombosis Research Institute		Pharmacological Thromboprophylaxis: present and future
		Ms Lynda Bonner, King’s College Hospital		Mechanical Thromboprophylaxis: making sense of the guidance
		Dr Raj Patel, King’s College Hospital		VTE prevention in action: Case scenarios (with interactive voting session)
		Dr Guy Vautier, Great Yarmouth (presenting on behalf of Mr Adrian Pennington)		Preventing thrombosis – the CEO’s view
		Mr Adam Howard, Colchester		VTE education, education, education!
		Dr Jim Gardner, North Lancashire PCT		VTE prevention: the primary care perspective
		Ms Caroline Baglin, Addenbrooke’s		Hospital acquired VTE Alert System
		Ms Carol Law/Rebecca Brown, University of Hertfordshire		A strategy for auditing VTE prevention
		Dr Roopen Arya, King’s College Hospital		Summary and questions (with interactive voting session)