Effectiveness of Prophylactic Measures on Deep Vein Thrombosis among Post-operative Patients at Selected Hospital, Maharashtra

Abstract

The study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of prophylactic measures on deep vein thrombosis among post-operative patients at Selected Hospital, Maharashtra. A quantitative research approach was adopted for this particular study. A True-experimental post-test only design was adopted by the investigator for this study. A consecutive sampling technique was used to draw 60 post-operative patients (30 samples in the experimental group & 30 in the control group) as samples for this particular study. The samples in the experimental group received Prophylactic measures like early mobilization whereas the samples in the control group received only routine hospital care. Later, during post-test, Modified well’s criteria was used to identify the risk of patients for deep vein thrombosis on 5th day morning. The study findings revealed that there was a significant difference in the risk level of developing deep vein thrombosis between the samples of experimental group and control group t = 3.7, p= 0.01). The study results revealed that prophylactic measures are effective to prevent the risk of post-operative patients from developing deep vein thrombosis. Keywords: Effectiveness, Deep Vein Thrombosis, Post-operative patients, prophylactic measures.