Pre-exposure prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism and nursing: The reality of a university public hospital

Abstract

Objective: to characterize the risk of venous thromboembolism and the use of prophylaxis in clinical and surgical patients, evaluating the compliance or non-compliance with the prescription of drug prophylaxis. Method: a cross-sectional study with 3341 clinical and surgical patients with a completed venous thromboembolism prophylaxis protocol approved by the Research Ethics Committee CAAE 62055616.7.00005411, with data extracted from a personalized report automatically generated from the patient's electronic medical record in an Excel® spreadsheet, from the period from March/2017 to December 2017. The initial analyzes were obtained from descriptive measures for quantitative variables and frequencies and percentages for categorized variables. Results: The overall compliance rate was 70% and clinical patients showed greater compliance with prophylaxis prescriptions compared to surgical patients. Conclusion: Drug prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism is underused, especially in surgical patients. Clinical patients received more prophylaxis than surgical patients, with the indication of enoxaparin sodium predominating.