Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2020 Apr 1. doi: 10.1097/HPC.0000000000000221. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
Patients on oral anticoagulation commonly undergo surgery or other invasive procedures. Peri-procedural management of oral anticoagulants involves a careful balance of the thromboembolic risk and bleeding risk. To standardize clinical practice at our institution, we developed a guideline for peri-procedural management for patients taking oral anticoagulants that incorporates published data and expert opinion. In this article, we present our clinical practice guideline as a decision support tool to aid clinicians in developing a consistent strategy for managing peri-procedural management and for safely bridging anticoagulation in patients who require it.
PMID:32243278 | DOI:10.1097/HPC.0000000000000221