Perioperative Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Receiving a Direct Oral Anticoagulant

D. Douketis, James; C. Spyropoulos, Alex; Duncan, Joanne; Carrier, Marc; Le Gal, Grégoire; Tafur, Alfonso; Vanassche, Thomas; Verhamme, Peter; Shivakumar, Sudeep; L. Gross, Peter; Lee, Agnes; Yeo, Erik; Solymoss, Susan; Kassis, Jeannine; Le Templier, Geneviève; Kowalski, Stephen; Blostein, Mark; Shah, Vinay; Mackay, Elizabeth; Wu, Cynthia; P. Clark, Nathan; M. Bates, Shannon; A. Spencer, Frederick; Αrnaoutoglou, Eleni; Coppens, Michiel; M. Arnold, Donald; A. Caprini, Joseph; Li, Na; A. Moffat, Karen; Syed, Summer; Schulman, Sam

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2431

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Perioperative Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Receiving a Direct Oral Anticoagulant

Published in JAMA Internal Medicine • Aug 5, 2019

Authors:

James D. Douketis

Alex C. Spyropoulos

Joanne Duncan

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who use a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) and request elective surgery or procedure present a common clinical situation yet perioperative management is uncertain. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the safety of a standardized perioperative DOAC management ...

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Medicine

Apixaban

Rivaroxaban

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