Meeting
Abstract Number: 211
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Hospitalized patients receiving direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) sometimes require bridging with unfractionated heparin (UFH). Monitoring UFH with anti-Xa assays has been shown to correlate with better outcomes. However, DOACs interfere with anti-Xa assays resulting in inappropriate UFH dose adjustments that can negatively impact patient care. In 2015, we deployed an electronic health record (EHR) […]
Abstract Number: 259
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Perioperative management of anticoagulant in mechanical valve patients is challenging, Current recommendations focus on management in patients undergoing elective surgery, while the data in patients hospitalized for emergency/urgency non-cardiac surgery is limited. We aimed to identify thromboembolic and bleeding events after anticoagulant interruption in patients with mechanical heart valves hospitalized for emergency/urgent non-cardiac surgery. […]