Why the study?
Does continuing warfarin therapy during hand surgery increase bleeding complications in therapeutically anticoagulated patients?
Population
39 patients undergoing 47 consecutive surgical episodes on the hands, therapeutically anticoagulated with…
Design
Case_series
Authors
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Minor bleeding without sequelae observed; hypothesis-generating for continuing warfarin in hand surgery, pending controlled data.
Does continuing warfarin therapy during hand surgery increase bleeding complications in therapeutically anticoagulated patients?
Interruption of warfarin therapy is unnecessary for patients undergoing hand surgery if the INR is less than 3.0.
Wallace et al. (2004) studied this question.
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