Anticoagulants, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

by Jerrold H. Levy

Topics in this clinically focused publication devoted to Anticoagulants are: Antithrombin clinical applications and anti-inflammatory effects; Pharmacology and laboratory testing of oral direct thrombin inhibitor Dabigatran; Pharmacology and laboratory testing of the oral Xa inhibitors; Clincial use of the new oral anticoagulants; Pharmacology and safety of new oral anticoagulants-the challenge of bleeding; Emergency reversal of Warfarin anticoagulation – prothrombin complex concentrate compared with plasma; Prothrombin complex concentrate as reversal agent for new oral anticoagulants – lessons from prelinical models; Bleeding with new oral anticoagulants – clinical presentation and management; Treatment of ICH with new oral anticoagulants – a neurologist’s view; Management of anticoagulation agents in trauma patients; and Anticoagulation and pediatric patients.

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