VTE Specialist Network

Wishing all of our members, work colleagues and followers a happy new year 🥳

A bonus weekend 5 minute read for you 🤗

What do you advise women under your care?
Following the PERIOD study, we find dabigatran makes a significant difference 🤔 a shame that only 6% of patients were using dabigatran in this study

A great 5 minute read for you today 🤗

Please help Thrombosis UK to develop this tool if you can
25% of the maternal deaths due to pregnancy happened in the first trimester in the most recent MBRRACE report
@thrombosisuk.bsky.social

This is free to access and although not thrombosis related with so many bleeding disorders undiagnosed this will definitely be of use 🤗

That will be a great 5 minute read 🤗

Listening to the boss 🤗

A couple of us have snuck up to Hull for this meeting - looking forward to learning lots today 🤗

A 20 minute podcast for you 🤗

How often do you use the Yellow Card reporting system?
It’s easy to use (not always quick though 😬) but it helps to collate data and can show issues with medication quickly 👍🏻

What are you doing for Medicines Safety Week? 🤔
With anticoagulation always in the top 10 for incidents, anything you can do to raise awareness of the correct dosing or management of anticoagulation will be a massive win 🙌🏻🎉

Up to 60% of orthopedic surgery patients develop VTE without prophylaxis, yet it’s preventable.The new Thrombosis Canada summary distills global guidelines to help teams make informed, patient-centered prophylaxis decisions.
Read: thrombosiscanada.ca/ThromboProphy
#VTE #OrthopedicSurgery #WTDay25

These as well 🤗

Some great awareness materials here if you need them 🤗

This is such an important topic - what pathway do you have for your patients who need to start thromboprophylaxis as soon as they have their positive pregnancy test? 🤔

Carrying out a blood clot risk assessment for patients who have a lower limb injury is so important as it makes sure that the right patients are identified for blood clot prevention medication - always ask what your blood clot risk is when attending hospital 🤗

Today is World Thrombosis Day 🩸

We're sharing this short video which is about preventing blood clots whilst in hospital:
https://youtu.be/jJ1GaYDBXj4?si=paZwKi_glYOeMIB2 🏥

An image of the red and blue logo for World Thrombosis Day on the 13 October 2025.

Today is #WorldThrombosisDay. This Top Picks article pulls together resources, blogs and reports for patients and healthcare professionals, which focus on how to recognise venous thromboembolism and how to improve patient safety.

Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #WTDay25

It's World Thrombosis Day
Did you know that a patient with active cancer has a 4 times higher risk of developing a blood clot?
Learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of VTE and seek early medical attention if you develop of them - VTE can be fatal if you delay seeking help

These symposiums were excellent - if you have time, please have a watch 🤗

A bonus read from us to you on a Sunday 🤗

This is a great podcast if you have time to listen to it 🤗

This will be a great seminar to join if you have the time? 🙌🏻

Have you booked a place for this webinar? 🤗

Abstracts for the @bsochaem.bsky.social Annual Scientific Meeting in April 2026 are now open with a deadline of 06.01.26 - are you going to submit an abstract? 🤔🤗

It's always good news when a prediction tool has validation - thank you for this 🤗

Recurrent VTE can be a conundrum - a great podcast to help in the future 🤗

It’s been a busy 2 days down here in London but we have all definitely learnt plenty and the talks have given us food for thought about how to improve services in our Trusts.
Thank you to all that travelled to attend the conference especially our Irish and American colleagues
Safe journeys home 🤗

Laura Magee giving us a first look at the possible new RCOG 37a guidelines 😬🎉