Stockings ‘no stroke clot help’
Surgical stockings do not cut stroke patients’ risk of developing blood clots, research suggests.
Doctors commonly use the stockings as way to minimise the risk of clots forming and travelling to the
lungs or heart, where they can be fatal.
But a Lancet study, by the University of Edinburgh, found they had little positive effect.
The team estimates cutting stocking use could save the NHS around £7m and 320,000 hours of nursing time a year.
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on May 27th, 2009 and is filed under General Health.
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