Pilot service has been created to help members of the primary care teams of England get answers to their clinical questions.This is the first visit to the site we rmend you read "".IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: As of June 27th the NLH Q" name="updateContentForm"> What is the place of aspirin for prevention of travel related thrombosis and is there any NICE guidance or other published guidance on prevention of DVT/PE during air flights?28/May/08 ANSWER: CKS have a guideline 'DVT - advice for travellers' .Guideline (URL below) has a simply risk stratification scheme and suggested interventions based on these risks.States: _"For continuous journeys up to 6 hours, no special precautions are needed.With regard to aspirin it reports: _"Aspirin is not included as there is no evidence that it is effective in preventing travel-related deep vein thrombosis (DVT).It later expands on the above: _"WHAT EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THE USE OF ASPIRIN TO PREVENT TRAVEL-RELATED VTE?_The efficacy of aspirin has been estimated in terms of the number need to treat with aspirin to prevent one person having travel-related venous thromboembolism (VTE).Ranged from 8600 for people at high risk, to 34,000 for for people low risk of VTE ._We could find no trial of aspirin used to prevent VTE in long-distance travellers (Medline search date November 2005).REFERENCE 1) The NLH Question Answering Service aims to answer questions quickly, it is not a systematic review.You have any doubt as to the implications of this contact the Q&A Service Provider for further information.Read more Aspirin-like compounds (salicylates) increase insulin secretion in otherwise healthy obese people
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