Abstract
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has been a common illness even in Japan and was gotten increased social as well as medical attention, especially during postoperative period. However, we cannot use western guidelines in Japan, because the incidence of VTE might be lower, available medicine has differences such as low molecular weight heparin, and public awareness of VTE is much lower in Japan. Therefore, Japanese guidelines is necessary. Although we have little data on the prevention of VTE, we completed the creation of Japanese own guideline together with 10 medical societies. The guidelines are based on the 6th ACCP guidelines which employ the 4-risk category style. We assumed that the incidence of VTE in Japanese was one level lower than in western people. We used the coverage medicine only, and gave priority to mechanical prevention because we wanted to avoid bleeding complications. Our future tasks are release of these guideline, reevaluation of the guideline after using this one, and data collection of Japanese VTE.
