Anticoagulation Therapy A Clinical Practice Guide

Although highly effective in preventing thromboembolic events, the safe management of anticoagulant therapy continues to be a major challenge, requiring constant monitoring and coordinated models of patient-centered care.

Anticoagulation Therapy: A Clinical Practice Guide, Second Edition, helps take the guesswork out of managing these therapies and provides essential recommendations.

New in This Edition:

• Extensive new information on direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs)
• Expanded information on anticoagulant reversal and expanded use of prothrombin complex concentrates
• New chapters on the use of anticoagulants in special patient populations, the use of anticoagulants in patients with mechanical devices, anticoagulation care delivery standards, regulatory issues, and more
• Four new appendices on the effect of DOACs on chemotherapy, nutritional influences, types of central nervous system hemorrhage, and use of anticoagulation in patients with coagulopathies

The second edition of this critical reference text is edited by William E. Dager, PharmD, BCPS (AQ Cardiology), FCSHP, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP, MCCM, Michael P. Gulseth, PharmD, BCPS, and Edith A. Nutescu, PharmD, MS CTS, FCCP, and written by the elite anticoagulation pharmacist clinicians.