Response to Drs Ghabach, Einhorn, and Vorenkamp

Key Result

The ASRA Pain medicine anticoagulation guidelines are purposely anti-hemorrhagic to prevent rare complications that are not easily studied.

Key Points

• The commentary aims to discuss the difficulties in formulating guidelines that address rare complications in anticoagulation therapy.
• Engagement with experts to discuss challenges in guideline development.
• Review of existing anticoagulation guidelines related to pain medicine.
• Highlighted the unique difficulties in studying rare complications of anticoagulation.
• Emphasized the importance of anti-hemorrhagic principles in guideline formulation.