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#99 Bleeding vs. Clotting Risk: Gray Matters Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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Are Dice Rolls a Good Thing When You Stop Anticoagulation?

In this case those probabilities are really hard to determine. In the bridge trial which was atrial-fibrillation patients we know that the daily risk of having a stroke with atrial fibrillation is like one in a thousand. But on the other hand your patient, Ellie, had a clot really recently and stopping that early and maybe it is a six sided dice I don't know. Yeah it feels easy when the patient has AFib. We have the data but my patient with a DVT, EE and this huge cantaloupe size liver mass he doesn't fit into a trial. So how am I supposed to figure out what his daily risk is with stopping anticoag

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