Articles Tagged With: dabigatran
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Reversal of Direct Oral Anticoagulants
Given the growing use of direct oral anticoagulants, particularly in the elderly population, it is important as an emergency physician to be well versed on the methods of emergent reversal of these agents in the bleeding patient.
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Management of Nontraumatic Intracranial Emergencies: A Clinical Update
This article attempts to provide evidence-based, practical guidelines to the frontline clinician in the nontrauma intensive care setting.
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Perioperative Management of Direct Oral Anticoagulants
A simple protocol for managing atrial fibrillation patients on direct oral anticoagulants perioperatively was shown to produce low levels of major bleeding and thromboembolism for 30 days postoperatively.
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Idarucizumab for Reversal of the Anticoagulant Effects of Dabigatran
The administration of idarucizumab is effective and safe for the reversal of the direct thrombin inhibitor, dabigatran, and should be used in appropriate clinical situations.
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Oral Anticoagulation Reversal
This review discusses anticoagulant medications and reversal agents.
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Idarucizumab Injection (Praxbind)
The FDA has approved the first reversal agent for a direct oral anticoagulant. Idarucizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody fragment derived from an IgG1 isotype molecule. -
Idarucizumab: A Promising New Drug that Reverses the Anticoagulant Effects of Dabigatran
A recent study found that idarucizumab rapidly reverses the effects of dabigatran and is likely to have important clinical benefits for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and other disease processes in which reversal of anticoagulation is important.