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Anticoagulation in critical care

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Poetzsch, Bernd *
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McRae, Hannah L.
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Ruehl, Heiko
DOI:10.1007/s00063-026-01432-7delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Anticoagulation is used in intensive care medicine to prevent and treat thromboembolism. The increased risk of bleeding in this patient population requires a personalized approach to management including individualized anticoagulant selection and dose adjustment. While low-molecular-weight heparins are equivalent or superior to unfractionated heparin for thromboprophylaxis, unfractionated heparin is the preferred therapy for the treatment of thromboembolism. Its advantages include a relatively short half-life, the ability to monitor therapy using the activated partial thromboplastin time and the possibility of rapid and effective reversal. The direct thrombin inhibitor argatroban is a reserve anticoagulant used to treat patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. The advantages of argatroban are its short half-life, hepatic clearance, and the ability to monitor therapeutic levels using the activated partial thromboplastin time.
Keywords:
Thrombosis
Prevention and control
Hemorrhage
Drug monitoring
Heparin
Thrombosis
Prevention and control
Hemorrhage
Drug monitoring
Heparin

Journal

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MEDIZINISCHE KLINIK-INTENSIVMEDIZIN UND NOTFALLMEDIZIN
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1.5
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120
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university of bonn
Scholars:
3.3W
Papers: 2.6W
Citations: 29