Periprocedural Direct Oral Anticoagulant Management

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) are a new drug group that has been approved for chronic anticoagulation of patients in atrial fibrillation or suffering acute thrombosis, between others. The need of surgery of a patient in atrial fibrillation is round 10% per year. Due to DOAC short time of commercialization and the lack of experience, the proper management of DOAC when a patient in this treatment needs a scheduled or urgent procedure, has not yet been established. This fact may mean both the decrease of the anticoagulant treatment efficacy and the increase of the haemorrhage complications in the perioperative period. With the aim of gaining additional information about this aspect, a multicentre, prospective and observational study (classified by the spanish drug society, AEMPS, as non-interventional trial, EPA-SP) about the DOAC management, before a scheduled or urgent surgery, in normal clinical practice, is proposed.