Management of Severe Bleeding In Patients Treated With Oral Anticoagulants

In this EMCREG-International Proceedings Monograph from the October 20, 2018 EMCREG-International Multidisciplinary Consensus Panel on Management of Severe Bleeding in Patients Treated with Oral Anticoagulants held in Orlando, Florida, you will find a detailed discussion regarding the treatment of patients requiring anticoagulation and the reversal of anticoagulation for patients with severe bleeding. For emergency physicians, critical care physicians, hospitalists, cardiologists, internists, surgeons, and family physicians, the current approach and disease indications for treatment with anticoagulants such as coumadin, Factor IIa, and Factor Xa inhibitors are particularly relevant. When a patient treated with anticoagulants presents to the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, or Operating Room with severe, uncontrollable bleeding, achieving rapid, controlled hemostasis is critically important to saving the patient’s life.