use prothrombin time to rule out dabigatran related bleeding

• related: anticoagulation medications and reversal
• tags: #permanent

• thrombin time has high sensitivity and low specificity for dabigatran
  • high sensitivity rules out, high specificity rules in
• normal thrombin time is highly sensitive to rule out therapeutic dabigatran therapy
• medications other than dabigatran can cause high thrombin time¹

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• anticoagulation medications and reversal
  • use prothrombin time to rule out dabigatran related bleeding