Additional comments on the 2022 Joint ESAIC/ESRA guidelines: regional anaesthesia in patients on antithrombotic drugs

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospitals Leuven. Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (EV), the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, AUVA Trauma Centre, Linz, Austria (CJS), and the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Evangelical Hospital Vienna and Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria (SK).

Comment

Erik Vandermeulen et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 1;40(1):68-70.

doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001732.

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospitals Leuven. Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (EV), the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, AUVA Trauma Centre, Linz, Austria (CJS), and the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Evangelical Hospital Vienna and Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria (SK).

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Comment on

Regional anaesthesia in patients on antithrombotic drugs: Joint ESAIC/ESRA guidelines.
Kietaibl S, Ferrandis R, Godier A, Llau J, Lobo C, Macfarlane AJ, Schlimp CJ, Vandermeulen E, Volk T, von Heymann C, Wolmarans M, Afshari A. Kietaibl S, et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022 Feb 1;39(2):100-132. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001600. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022. PMID: 34980845

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