Venous stasis

Causes

• Chronic venous insufficiency.
• Congestive heart failure.
• Long periods of immobility that can be encountered from driving, flying, bed rest/hospitalization, or having an orthopedic cast. Recommendations by clinicians to reduce venous stasis and DVT/PE often encourage increasing walking, calf exercises, and intermittent pneumatic compression when possible.

  Complications

• Venous ulcers
• Blood clot formation in veins, as with the deep veins of the legs, potentially indicating thrombosis prophylaxis.