Cardiology

Benign Hematology   

Questions discussed in this category


Do you increase rivaroxaban to 10 mg daily during the inpatient stay, or do you prefer to add LMWH or SC heparin?

Assume the patient does not have another indication for AC like VTE or AFib. Could this be suggestive of a hypercoagulable state?

Are the INRs reliable? In what scenarios would you not recommend POC INR use for warfarin monitoring? Are these typically covered by insurance? Are t...

Would you bridge with enoxaparin 0.7 mg/kg/day in an ESKD patient, as described in a previous retrospective study (Pon et al., PMID: 24718051)?

Please comment on temperature recommendations and role of exchange transfusion. 


Papers discussed in this category


Circulation, 2012-09-25

BMJ, 2021 Jun 09

The New England journal of medicine, 2020 Mar 28

Journal of endovascular therapy : an official journal of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists, 2018-04

Atherosclerosis, 2021 Nov 08

Blood advances, 2018-11-27