Narrative Review on Prevalence of Venous Thromboembolism and Public Awareness in India

Sarkar, Pritha; Srivastava, Sunita; Das, Jayanta; Kumar, Anil

doi:10.31674/mjn.2023.v15i01.019

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“…In India this awareness level needs to be emphasised. (Sarkar et al, 2023). This study with a small group can be replicated by involving a larger group of corporate employees in India.…”

Section: Recommendationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Individuals who Frequently Travel by Flight for Work

Sarkar,

Srivastava,

Mani

et al. 2023

IJALSR

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Many research studies have found that venous thromboembolism is common among frequent travellers in all form mainly air travel. Few Indian studies in acute care settings had also mentioned travel history as an important element. Nowadays a section of corporate employees are frequent flyers in India. Hence, we conducted a pilot project to assess and analyze the risk category among these employees. A snowball sampling was used as a sampling technique. The data collection method was done using a google survey link. An anonymous questionnaire link with a unique code of four digit inserted by the participants, had been circulated among the identified study participants. Out of the total 30 respondents, 13 (43.3%) were at high risk, 8(26.7%) at medium risk and 9 (30%) at low-risk categories of venous thromboembolism development. Pre-existing risk factors and post-travel observation (within 8 weeks of flight travel) were recorded and analysed with SPSS 22 version. Family history was significantly associated with risk category of the employees with chi-square (χ²) value of 22.46 (p<0.05). For high-risk category employees, the venous thromboembolism risk was increased by 44 times (OR 44, 95% CI 3.4-573.4) and for medium-risk category employees 13 times (OR 13.3, 95% CI 1.07-166.4) with the history of infectious disease exposure. Overall presence of certain pre-existing clinical parameters (like heart disease, congenital heart disease, varicose veins, pregnancy, exposure to infectious disease) were significantly associated with a chi-square (χ²) value of 6.09 (p<0.05). Further knowledge level and practice level of these frequent corporate flyers had a statistically significant association with their risk category. This paved the way to develop holistic need-based guidelines covering all relevant key aspects of venous thromboembolism including the head-neck-foot exercise to prevent venous thromboembolism while flying.

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“…In India this awareness level needs to be emphasised. (Sarkar et al, 2023). This study with a small group can be replicated by involving a larger group of corporate employees in India.…”

Section: Recommendationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Individuals who Frequently Travel by Flight for Work

Sarkar,

Srivastava,

Mani

et al. 2023

IJALSR

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“…Acute PE presented more than a decade earlier in Indian patients compared with their western counterparts & associated with a very high mortality. Creation of regional centers of excellence serving PE cases with application of PERT concept will lead to improved patient outcomes [6][7][8][9].…”

Section: Epidemiology Of Pementioning

confidence: 99%

Homoeopathy in Clotting

Tripathy,

Das,

Singh

et al. 2023

SAR J Med

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The current article discusses clotting through Pulmonary Embolism (PE), thereafter, it delves in to the epidemiology of PE, its clinical features, management & finally the application of homoeopathy to deal with this issue. It concludes with the cost effectiveness & therapeutic effectiveness of the homoeopathic system of medicine & suggests its involvement on a large scale in the nation. It only reinforces the age old concept of managing these chronic conditions through diet, regimen, exercise & homoeopathy. The suggestion of large scale use of homoeopathy is based on the premise of the modalities of essential medicines. The National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) envisages that a medicine can be called essential only if it is cost effective, clinically effective & has no side effects. Homoeopathy fits into this triad fully. The article also suggests a treatment protocol based on the typical clinical features of PE & aspires that the public benefits from the protocol at large.

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Narrative Review on Prevalence of Venous Thromboembolism and Public Awareness in India

Cited by 2 publications

References 31 publications

Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Individuals who Frequently Travel by Flight for Work

Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Individuals who Frequently Travel by Flight for Work

Homoeopathy in Clotting

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