National Trauma Institute: NIH ACTIV Partnership and Operation Warp Speed Tap Trauma Network Studying Clots
February 23, 2021
February 23, 2021
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 23 -- The National Trauma Institute issued the following news:
What do trauma patients have in common with people who are COVID-positive? It turns out that the incidence of blood clots in the lungs and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is very high in both these patient populations.
"COVID is an inflammatory process," explained Peggy Knudson, MD, FACS, leader of the CLOTT (Consortium of Leaders in the Study of Traumatic Thromboembolism) study . . .
What do trauma patients have in common with people who are COVID-positive? It turns out that the incidence of blood clots in the lungs and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is very high in both these patient populations.
"COVID is an inflammatory process," explained Peggy Knudson, MD, FACS, leader of the CLOTT (Consortium of Leaders in the Study of Traumatic Thromboembolism) study . . .