Identifying Anticoagulated Patients in the ED and ICU - Who Should Receive Repletion or Reversal Therapy for Life-Threatening GI Bleeding?

Identifying Anticoagulated Patients in the ED and ICU - Who Should Receive Repletion or Reversal Therapy for Life-Threatening GI Bleeding?

As the utilization of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) increases, there is a parallel increase in major bleeding events, especially intracranial hemorrhages, requiring hospitalization. Clinicians are not recognizing or distinguishing major from minor bleeding or appropriately employing emergent options to manage major bleeding.

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