I thought I had been bitten by a mosquito – it was a blood clot…

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Shay Kearney

The Irish Independent has just published an article interviewing Businessman Shay Kearney about his experience of a DVT. Our own Dr Tomás Breslin is also interviewed.

Currently, in Ireland there are no national guidelines for the administration of this medication to hospital patients. In the UK, they introduced national guidelines like this in 2010 and they estimate this reduced deaths from hospital-related clots by 8%

Dr Tomás Breslin, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

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Dr Tomás Breslin

You can read the full article over at the Irish Independent Website