Management of bleeding in patients treated with direct oral anticoagulants

Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Levi, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Apixaban; Dabigatran; Direct acting oral anticoagulants; Edoxaban; Hemorrhage; Rivaroxaban

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANDEXANET ALFA; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; APIXABAN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A INHIBITOR; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 9 COMPLEX; CIRAPARANTAG; CLOPIDOGREL; DABIGATRAN; EDOXABAN; IDARUCIZUMAB; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDONE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

BINDING COMPETITION; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REVIEW; THROMBIN TIME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; INCIDENCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RISK FACTOR;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FACTOR XA INHIBITORS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PYRAZOLES; PYRIDINES; PYRIDONES; RISK FACTORS; RIVAROXABAN; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84982279471     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1413-3     Document Type: Review

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