A 69-year-old woman has been in the intensive care unit for 7 days following complicated hip replacement surgery. Her post-surgical course has been uneventful and the patient is currently receiving heparin subcutaneously and wears intermittent pneumatic c
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A. Beginning warfarin therapy
B. Discontinuation of bilateral pneumatic compression devices
C. Placing an inferior vena cava filter
D. Discontinuation of heparin
E. Performing venography
F. Transfusing platelets