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#117 Atrial Fibrillation: Gray Matters Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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Anti-Quagulation

The decision was essentially up to us. We had a 72 year old woman with newly discovered AFib after an infection and a surgery that the chest guidelines consider high risk for bleeding. By now she's out of the ICU and doing better. And surgery has no issues with starting a blood thinner. Okay, so you've got the okay from surgery to start anti-quagulation. So what'd you do next? Well, we calculated her chads vast to before, which suggests about a 4.8% yearly stroke risk. Her has blood was two, suggesting a 4.1% yearly bleeding risk. Take into account her long episodes of AFib are new knowledge that she is

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