Do we need new guidelines for interventional pain procedures in patients on anticoagulants?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-3

  Benzon, Honorio T ^a   Huntoon, Marc A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LAMINECTOMY; PARAPLEGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR; SPINAL HEMATOMA; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ASPIRIN; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

EID: 84892173198     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000040     Document Type: Editorial

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