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Patient Education
- Educate patients and their families about DVT/PE, especially its signs and symptoms, risk of recurrence of disease, risk of long-term disability and about the possibility of genetic predisposition
- Explain treatment options to patients and discuss the benefits, risks and side effects of anticoagulation therapy
- Discuss lifestyle issues with patients
- Advise patients to drink plenty of fluids
- Lay public may not be familiar with PE and discussing it may assuage their emotional burden