Anticoagulant Therapy: when should it be reversed and how?

Dr Abdulwahab EL Barsha
Specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes, the 7th of October Hospital
Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Arab Medical University

A significant proportion of anticoagulated patients are being admitted annually for elective surgery or invasive procedures. Furthermore many of them suffer from severe or life-threatening bleeding or require urgent surgical interventions. In these situations careful management of anticoagulation therapy is required to reduce not only the risk of bleeding but also the risk of thrombembolism if anticoagulation has to be reversed or interrupted

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