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Interventional Diagnostic Procedure: A Practical Guide for the Assessment of Coronary Vascular Function
Published on: March 15, 2022
New antiplatelet drugs and new oral anticoagulants
V Koenig-Oberhuber1, M Filipovic2
1Division of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Rescue and Pain Medicine, Kantonsspital St Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9000 St Gallen, Switzerland Department of Anaesthesia, Kantonsspital Graubünden, Loëstrasse 170, 7000 Chur, Switzerland.
Abstract:
In our daily anaesthetic practice, we are confronted with an increasing number of patients treated with either antiplatelet or anticoagulant agents. During the last decade, changes have occurred that make the handling of antithrombotic medication a challenging part of anaesthetic perioperative management. In this review, the authors discuss the most important antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, the perioperative management, the handling of bleeding complications, and the interpretation of some laboratory analyses related to these agents.
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