1. [Management of complications with antivitamin K in elderly people].
- Author
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Pautas E, Mitha N, Gouronnec A, Siguret V, and Gouin-Thibault I
- Subjects
- Age Factors, Aged, Anticoagulants administration & dosage, Cross-Sectional Studies, Drug Interactions, Drug Overdose blood, Drug Overdose epidemiology, Drug Overdose nursing, France, Hemorrhage blood, Hemorrhage epidemiology, Humans, International Normalized Ratio, Medication Errors, Nursing Assessment, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Anticoagulants adverse effects, Frail Elderly, Hemorrhage nursing, Iatrogenic Disease, Vitamin K antagonists & inhibitors
- Abstract
latrogenic complications with antivitamin K (AVK) largely entail haemorrhages, apparently more frequent in the elderly. Recent French and North American recommendations are available and must be widely circulated, in community practices as well as hospitals, in order to improve the treatment of overdoses and/or haemorrhagic accidents under AVK.
- Published
- 2011