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Chronic Anticoagulation

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Patients receiving chronic anticoagulation often require interruption of treatment perioperatively. It remains challenging to mitigate both the risk of thromboembolic events off anticoagulation and the risk of surgical bleeding on anticoagulation. The underlying condition requiring anticoagulation impacts the decision of whether to interrupt long-acting agents such as warfarin or to use bridging therapy with shorter-acting agents.

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  1. Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Kelly Wentworth M.D.

  2. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Sabeena Setia M.D.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Molly Blackley Jackson , Somnath Mookherjee  & Nason P. Hamlin ,  & 

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Wentworth, K., Setia, S. (2015). Chronic Anticoagulation. In: Jackson, M.B., Mookherjee, S., Hamlin, N.P. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09366-6_18

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