Starting anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation in the emergency department safely

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Medical School, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada kerstin.dewit@queensu.ca.

Christopher Kirwan et al. Emerg Med J. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 24:emermed-2022-212487.

doi: 10.1136/emermed-2022-212487. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Medical School, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada kerstin.dewit@queensu.ca.

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Keywords: stroke.

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