I’m sure many of you remember, like me, when NOACs first came in and being really nervous about the bleeding risk (what? no blood monitoring?! Not sure about that…) yet now we are dishing them out left, right and centre.
There is a risk when we get to this stage of our prescribing of ‘less novel’ drugs that some of the messages about safety and appropriate prescribing can get lost or forgotten. So here are my top tips and useful snippets for safe NOAC prescribing that we’ve collated over the past few years:
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The blog was originally published on the NB Medical Education blog on 8th July 2022. It has been edited for an Australian audience.
Rob Walker is a GP in Basingstoke. He is a member of the NB Medical team charged with reviewing and writing material for the Hot Topics course and book.
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