A surgical procedure requires reversal of oral anticoagulation to guarantee adequate hemostasis during and after the operation.

A surgical procedure requires reversal of oral anticoagulation to guarantee adequate hemostasis during and after the operation. This does not generally apply, however, to low dose (8 1 mg/d) aspirin therapy since, unlike high-dose antiplatelet drug therapy, it is not associated with increased perioperative bleeding. The key to management of a patient on long-term warfarin […]