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- You can prevent DVT by moving your legs around when sitting for a while to allow blood flow in your legs.
- Taking blood thinner after surgery may decrease your risk of blood clots.
- Avoid wearing tight clothing all the time, for they decrease blood flow.

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family history of DVT

catheter placed in vein

taking birth control pills or being under hormone therapy

smoking heavily

staying seated for a long time, especially if you already have at least one other risk factor

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Risk of gaining a DVT would be:

having an injury that damages your veins such as a bone fracture

being overweight because more pressure is put on blood veins in legs and pelvis

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Treatment would include blood thinners, compression stockings, and vena cava (large abdominal vein) filters.

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The most symptoms one could receive with DVT would be swelling in calf, foot, or leg, tenderness, and warm skin.
It is possible to have no symptoms.

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Without the proper treatment, there is a 3% of fatal death for DVT.
With proper treatment and self care, DVT could resolve within months.

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The risks that include DVT's would be the blood clot could possibly loosen and lodge itself into an important organ, resulting in death.

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Deep Vein Thrombosis, also known as DVT's are blood clots in the deep vein that usually occur in the legs.