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Medical Category: Hematology and Oncology

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Outpatient Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism

Background: The care of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is currently undergoing a paradigm shift in the US with an increasingly large percentage of patients being discharged home from the Emergency Department (ED).  It wasn’t too long ago that all patients diagnosed ...

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Hematology and Oncology

REBEL Review 75: Mechanism of DOACs

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REBEL Reviews

Hemophilia: What’s so Bloody Funny?

Today, I gave a lecture on Hemophilia to our residents in San Antonio, TX.  Now this was a core content lecture that I have actually never given before. As I was preparing the lecture I realized that this is a diagnosis ...

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Hematology and Oncology

Noreversaban?

We have written about the new Non-Vitamin K Oral Anti Coagulants (NOACs). Many have jokingly referred to them as the “Noreversabans.” Taking these drugs is a high risk, high reward type of decision. While we recognize the benefits of quick ...

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Hematology and Oncology

Dancing with the Devil: Taking Dabigatran to the OR

So you are minding your own business working in the ED at Big Hospital, when two dudes (paramedics) bring in a patient with abdominal pain. As luck would have it, this person has a perforated bowel and needs surgery pretty ...

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Hematology and Oncology

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