Should Intravenous Heparin Be Administered During Total Knee or Total Hip Arthroplasty?

Armita A Abedi; Ibrahim Tuncay; Mohamed M Adi; Samih Tarabichi; Stavros Memtsoudis; Martin Buttaro; Javad Parvizi

doi:10.1016/j.arth.2024.10.072

Should Intravenous Heparin Be Administered During Total Knee or Total Hip Arthroplasty?

J Arthroplasty. 2024 Oct 22:S0883-5403(24)01085-4. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2024.10.072. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Armita A Abedi¹, Ibrahim Tuncay², Mohamed M Adi³, Samih Tarabichi⁴, Stavros Memtsoudis⁵, Martin Buttaro⁶, Javad Parvizi⁷

Affiliations

¹ International Consensus on Orthopedic Infections Organization, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Istanbul, Turkiye; International Joint Centre (IJC), Acibadem Maslak Hospital, Istanbul, Turkiye.
³ Orthopedics Division at Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁴ Alzahra Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York.
⁶ Hip Surgery Unit, Institute of Orthopaedics "Carlos E. Ottolenghi", Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁷ International Joint Center, Acibadem University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

PMID: 39447925
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2024.10.072

No abstract available

Keywords: intravenous heparin; perioperative anticoagulation; perioperative care; postoperative complications; thromboprophylaxis; total joint replacement.

Publication types

Review