Study recommends continuing to give warfarin before and during pacemaker implantation

[AgilityDog]

Rather than bridging with Lovenox, or withholding anticoagulation entirely, new study recommends continuing to give warfarin right up to and through surgery.

http://www.drugdigest.org/wps/porta...i93ZWJzY291dA!!/#7_30G00GCIU0FI30I8HM8LAR3082

 

[Ross]

OMG, they are finally learning. Maybe they will get on the same page before I die?

Patients who stopped receiving warfarin but received therapy with another blood-thinner, heparin, as a "bridge" while having surgery to implant a cardiac device had more bleeding complications and longer hospital stays than those who continued receiving warfarin during surgery, the U.S. team found.

Is this not what I've been saying for a long time now?

 

[Nancy]

This is an important piece of information. Joe almost died of a massive bleedout after gallbladder surgery. It was a combination of a surgical mishap when the surgeon nicked his liver, and Lovenox which was given before and after surgery.

 

[AgilityDog]

Yeah, don't think I'm not taking/sending it to Dr. Ryan before my AVR!!!!!! 'cause it's the coming off warfarin that scares me almost as much as the surgery.

 

[Elcarim]

Ah, I'll be due for a battery change in a couple of years, I'll make sure I keep a link to this study in case anyone argues with me!