GUIDELINESAsian venous thromboembolism guidelines:updated recommendations for the preventionof venous thromboembolismNgoh C. LIEW 1 *, Gina V. ALEMANy 2 , Pantep ANGCHAISUKSIRI 3 , Soo-Mee BANG 4 , Gordon CHoI 5 ,Deidre A. DE SILVA 6 , Ji M. HoNG 7 , Limi LEE 1 , yong J. LI 8 , Ganesan N. RAJAMoNEy 9 , John SUVIRAJ 10 ,Thiam C. TAN 11 , Eric TSE 12 , Li T. TEo 13 , Julie VISPERAS 14 , Raymond S. WoNG 15 , Lai H. LEE 161Department of Surgery, University Putra Malaysia and Hospital Serdang, Serdang, Malaysia; 2Department of Cardiology, Makati Medical Centre, Makati, Philippines; 3Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mahidol University Bangkok, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand; 4Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University, Bundang Hospital, Seoul, South Korea; 5Department ofAnaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong; 6National Neuroscience Institute (Singapore General Hospital campus), Singapore; 7Department of Neurology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea; 8Department of Vascular Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China; 9Orthopedic Centre, Raffles Hospital, Singapore; 10Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, India; 11Department of o and G KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore; 12Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 13Department of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; 14Department of Medicine and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Santo Tomas, Santo Tomas, Philippines; 15Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Sir y.K. Pao Cancer Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital,...