Can epidural anesthesia and warfarin be coadministered?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 456, Issue , 2007, Pages 133-137

  Parvizi, Javad ^a   Viscusi, Eugene R ^b   Frank, Harrison G ^a   Sharkey, Peter F ^a   Hozack, William J ^a   Rothman, Richard R ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL HEMATOMA;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WARFARIN;

EID: 34247488805     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000246548.25811.2d     Document Type: Article

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