Abstract
Fatal pulmonary embolism is rightly considered the most serious event, more so when it occurs after elective surgery for a condition that, by itself, is not life threatening. The advent of total hip arthroplasty, as a method of choice of treatment for the arthritic hip, has uncovered the demand, extended the indications and increased the expectations of an ever more favourable outcome. The emphasis has changed from pain relief to activity levels demanded or promised.
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Wroblewski, B.M., Siney, P.D., Fleming, P.A. (2016). Pulmonary Embolism After Total Hip Arthroplasty. In: Charnley Low-Frictional Torque Arthroplasty of the Hip. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21320-0_12
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