Well this news is a little strange; imagine you lying in the hospital for recovery and nurse instead of saying time for medicine says time to wear socks. But it is true. As 25,000 patients die every year after suffering deep vein thrombosis (DVT) following a hospital operation, the Health Service guidelines has advised million hospital patients at risk of deadly blood clots to be given stockings to wear in bed, rather than drugs. DVT is blood clots that form in the deep veins of the legs, often as a result of immobility during and after surgery. New guidelines for the hospitals in England, say only patients aged 60 and over should be routinely considered for bloodthinning drugs so patients aged between 40 and 60 will instead be given compression stockings to wear in hospital, and possibly inflatable "boots" during an operation to encourage blood flow to the legs

In DTV, if part or all the clots breaks off and lodges in the lung, it can trigger a pulmonary embolism that causes the lungs to collapse, leading to heart failure.
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