Abstract
The hospitalized patients of the psychiatric wards represent a risk group for the development of venous thromboembolism. An algorithm for thromboembolism prevention has been developed.
It involves important general risk factors of venous thrombosis (VTE history, immobilisation, malignancy, age over 75 years etc.) and also markers (physical restraints, dehydration, obesity, antipsychotics use) that can participate in the pathogenesis of venous thrombosis in the hospitalized psychiatric patients with limited motility.