bleeding risk may outweigh stroke risk for new onset afib patients in ICU

• related: atrial fibrillation
• tags: #permanent

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There is limited evidence for anticoagulation for new onset afib patients in ICU. ¹

CHADS-VaSC and HAS-BLED have not been validated in ICU patients.²

In ICU patients, bleeding risk may outweigh embolic risk. ³

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  • bleeding risk may outweigh stroke risk for new onset afib patients in ICU

Footnotes

1. https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-021-03684-5 ↩

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470554/ ↩

3. https://emcrit.org/ibcc/af/#anticoagulation? ↩