In this "Ask the Expert" segment, we have captured video responses from our expert faculty regarding clinical rationale for several significant decisions encountered in the patient simulations.
Question 1: How did you select the reversal agent without knowing the level of anticoagulation with certainty?
Question 2: Why did you run serial clotting study labs?
Question 3: How did you decide what dose of the reversal agent to give?
Question 4: How early in the course of care in the bleeding patient should you give the reversal agent?
Question 5: When in the course of care for a pre-procedural patient do you give the reversal agent?
Question 6: What are the potential downsides of acutely reversing anticoagulation?
Question 7: Is the reversal agent readily available?
Question 8: Is a second dose of the reversal agent ever required? How would I know the patient needs it?
