Search results for "Anticoagulation"
Mortality lower in COVID-19 inpatients who got aspirin with anticoagulation
An international registry study compared outcomes in 298 patients who received both prophylactic anticoagulation and aspirin with a propensity-matched group who received anticoagulation alone.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/29/free/mortality-lower-in-covid-19-inpatients-who-got-aspirin-with-anticoagulation.htm
29 Jun 2022
New option approved for reversal of anticoagulation
An alternative to plasma (Prothrombin Complex Concentrate, Human; brand name, Kcentra) was approved by the FDA last week for the urgent reversal of vitamin K antagonist (VKA) anticoagulation in adults with acute major bleeding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/08/6.htm
8 May 2013
September 21, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/21/
IVC filters lower PE death risk vs anticoagulants, but raise recurrent VTE risk
Patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and significant bleeding risk who got inferior vena cava (IVC) filters had a lower risk of pulmonary embolism (PE)-related death, but a higher risk of recurrent VTE than those on anticoagulants only, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/03/12/3.htm
12 Mar 2014
July 13, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/13/
December 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/
S. aureus, anticoagulants raise risk of endocarditis complications
In patients with infective endocarditis, four significant risk factors were associated with all neurological complications, while antimicrobial therapy reduced the risk, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/15/3.htm
15 May 2013
New afib guideline recommends a more comprehensive stroke risk calculator and includes novel anticoagulants as treatment options
A new guideline for managing nonvalvular atrial fibrillation recommends using the CHA2DS2-VASc stroke risk calculator, and adds 3 new anticoagulants as treatment options.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/04/02/3.htm
2 Apr 2014
Diagnose, address cognitive impairment in heart failure patients, society says
A new scientific statement from the Heart Failure Society of America advises clinicians to be alert to clues such as difficulty with money or running out of medicine, among other recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/diagnose-address-cognitive-impairment-in-heart-failure-patients-society-says.htm
20 Mar 2024
Withholding anticoagulation after negative compression ultrasound carries low VTE risk
Heart failure patients discharged from ED often have significant mortality risksAHA, ACC issue statement on prevention of in-hospital torsade de pointes
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/02/10/2.htm
10 Feb 2010