Patient Education at UHN

Our Patient Education audio brochures can be viewed directly from this web page using the video screen, or can be downloaded to your desktop to view later.  Each comes with a downloadable copy of the brochure.

Preventing Venous Thromboembolism or "VTE"

This brochure will help you to understand:

1. What a Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clot in a vein) is and, how it can form in your body;
2. What Pulmonary Embolus (a blood clot that has broken off and travelled to the lungs) is and, how it can form in your body;
3. What your healthcare team at University Health Network (UHN) will do to help prevent a blood clot from happening to you
4. What you can do to help stop a blood clot from forming in your body

Download or view this brochure in
PDF format

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