Bleeding risk in interventional pain practice: Assessment, management, and review of the literature

Pain Physician

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-51

  Prithvi Raj, P ^a   Shah, Rinoo V ^b   Kaye, Alan D ^c   Denaro, Stephen ^c   Hoover, Jason M ^c  

^a World Institute of Pain   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Bleeding; Hemostasis; Interventional pain management; Regional anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARGATROBAN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13; CLOPIDOGREL; DEXTRAN; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FONDAPARINUX; GARLIC EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; HEPARIN; KETOPROFEN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NADROPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PROTAMINE; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; TICLOPIDINE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

BLEEDING; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECCHYMOSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPISTAXIS; FIBRINOLYSIS; GARLIC; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GINKGO BILOBA; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEMOPHILIA; HEMOPHILIA A; HEMOPHILIA B; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MUCOSAL BLEEDING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PURPURA; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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