title: New antiplatelet drugs and new oral anticoagulants.
abstract: In our daily anaesthetic practice, we are confronted with an increasing number of patients treated with either antiplatelet or anticoagulant agents. During the last decade, changes have occurred that make the handling of antithrombotic medication a challenging part of anaesthetic perioperative management. In this review, the authors discuss the most important antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, the perioperative management, the handling of bleeding complications, and the interpretation of some laboratory analyses related to these agents.
authors: Division of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Rescue and Pain Medicine, Kantonsspital St Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9000 St Gallen, Switzerland Department of Anaesthesia, Kantonsspital Graubünden, Loëstrasse 170, 7000 Chur, Switzerland.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Koenig-Oberhuber
authors: Division of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Rescue and Pain Medicine, Kantonsspital St Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9000 St Gallen, Switzerland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Filipovic
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001241:Aspirin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016903:Drug Monitoring; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D019990:Perioperative Care; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; D001241:Aspirin
keywords: anticoagulants and haemorrhage; antiplatelet agents; blood coagulation tests