How and when to reverse anticoagulation in the bleeding EM patient.
Hosts:
Joe Offenbacher, MD
Audrey Bree Tse, MD
Podcast 185.0: Anticoagulation Reversal
Core EM - Emergency Medicine Podcast
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The Coagulation Cascade
The body addresses bleeding through two interrelated mechanisms, primary hemostasis and coagulation. Primar hemostasis deals with the formation of an initial platelet plug in acute bleeding. This is then followed by coagulation, a complex process by which soluble fabrinagin is converted into strands of insoluble fibrine.
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