When and how to interupt anticolaguation and antiplatelet therapy before elective surgical procedures

Abstract

At present more and more patients has drugs influencing haemocoagulation, like oral anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs. This anrticle summarizes how to interupt such medication correctly before planned surgical procedures.

Keywords

• Antiplatelet drugs
• anticoagulants
• acetylsalicylic acid
• clopidogrel
• dual antiplatelet treatment