Nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant activity: Challenges in measurement and reversal

Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Brown, Karen S ^a   Zahir, Hamim ^a   Grosso, Michael A ^a   Lanz, Hans J ^a   Mercuri, Michele F ^a   Levy, Jerrold H ^b  

^a DAIICHI SANKYO INC   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDEXANET ALFA; APIXABAN; DABIGATRAN; EDOXABAN; IDARUCIZUMAB; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; RIVAROXABAN;

ANTICOAGULATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MONITORING; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PUNCH BIOPSY; REVIEW; THROMBIN TIME;

EID: 84992518901     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1422-2     Document Type: Review

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