Brandon Stretton, Joshua Kovoor, Stephen Bacchi, Andrew Booth, Sam Gluck, Andrew Vanlint, Mohamed Afzal, Christopher Ovenden, Aashray Gupta, Rajiv Mahajan, Suzanne Edwards, Yvonne Brennan, Jir Ping Boey, Benjamin Reddi, Guy Maddern, Mark Boyd
BACKGROUND: There is little evidence to guide the perioperative management of patients on a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) in the absence of a last known dose. Quantitative serum titers may be ordered, but there is little evidence supporting this. AIMS: This multi-center retrospective cohort study of consecutive surgical in-patients with a DOAC assay, performed over a five-year period, aimed to characterize preoperative DOAC assay orders and their impact on perioperative outcomes...
April 24, 2023: Hospital Practice (Minneapolis)