Improving Quality and Safety In Your Endoscopy Unit: Live and Virtual | October 2022-Guideline

Guideline_ASGE antithrombotics

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The guideline provides recommendations for managing antithrombotic therapy in patients undergoing GI endoscopy. It suggests deferring elective procedures until short-term anticoagulation therapy is completed and provides recommendations for continuing or discontinuing anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents based on the bleeding and thromboembolic risk associated with different procedures. The document also discusses the management of urgent or emergent procedures and recommends holding anticoagulants and consulting with a cardiologist for patients on antiplatelet therapy who experience serious GI bleeding. The goal is to balance the risk of bleeding and thromboembolic events in these patients.

Keywords

antithrombotic therapy

GI endoscopy

elective procedures

short-term anticoagulation therapy

continuing anticoagulant agents

discontinuing anticoagulant agents

antiplatelet agents

bleeding risk

thromboembolic risk

urgent procedures