Clinical laboratory testing of blood from patients presenting to the emergency department with acute bleeding due to factor Xa inhibitors: An unmet medical need.

Bleeding is a life-threatening side effect of oral anticoagulants and can be a medical emergency. For patients on warfarin, stat testing of blood for the prothrombin time and calculation of the International Ratio (PT-INR) are used to determine if ac…

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