Have you signed up for the newest feature of the Essential Evidence Plus (EE+) product from STAT!Ref? You can now receive Daily POEMs Alerts via e-mail. EE+ POEMs or "Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters" are synopses of new evidence carefully filtered for relevance to patient care and evaluated for validity.
Available to those subscribers of EE+ from STAT!Ref, Daily POEMs are e-mail alerts that identify the most valid, relevant research to help you practice. Monthly, the complete set is compiled and sent for additional summary review. Each Daily POEM is also added to the Daily POEMs database in EE+, for easy future reference.
Click here or see below for an Essential Evidence Plus Daily POEMs e-mail alert sample:
The Latest Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters
Bridging anticoagulation in patients with AF associated with more CVEs and bleeding
Study Design
Cohort (prospective)
Bottom Line
This study provides more evidence that bridging in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation not only does not improve outcomes, it is actually associated with a higher risk of both bleeding complications and cardiovascular events.
Synopsis
Bridging anticoagulation substitutes an anticoagulant that is slower to reverse (such as warfarin) with one that is easily reversed in case of emergency (heparin) in patients undergoing a surgical procedure. But does all that hassle really improve outcomes? A recent randomized trial in patients…
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