Serotonergic antidepressants and perioperative bleeding risk: A systematic review

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 695-704

  Mahdanian, Artin A ^a,b,c   Rej, Soham ^a   Bacon, Simon L ^b,d   Ozdin, Deniz ^a   Lavoie, Kim L ^b,e   Looper, Karl ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Blood transfusion; Perioperative bleeding; Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; Serotonergic antidepressants; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOMIPRAMINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; VENLAFAXINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG USE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE SURGERY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; HEMORRHAGE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84901337488     PISSN: 14740338     EISSN: 1744764X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14740338.2014.908182     Document Type: Review

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