Uncomplicated removal of epidural catheters in 4365 patients with international normalized ratio greater than 1.4 during initiation of warfarin therapy

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-235

  Liu, Spencer S ^a   Buvanendran, Asokumar ^b   Viscusi, Eugene R ^c   Hutton, Erin ^a   Lubenow, Timothy ^b   Zhou, Jon ^c   Shaw, Pamela M ^a   Moric, Mario ^b   Lenart, Suzanne ^c  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CATHETER REMOVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMOSTASIS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WARFARIN;

EID: 79955592368     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31820d4376     Document Type: Article

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