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Vol. 97. Núm. 5.
Páginas 245-246 (mayo 2019)
Vol. 97. Núm. 5.
Páginas 245-246 (mayo 2019)
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Perioperative Management of Patients Receiving Antithrombotic Treatment: A Multidisciplinary Consensus Document
Manejo perioperatorio del paciente que recibe tratamiento antitrombótico: documento de consenso multidisciplinar
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Juan Ignacio Arcelus Martíneza,b
a Servicio de Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
b Departamento de Cirugía, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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The number of patients receiving anticoagulant treatment (mainly for atrial fibrillation) has grown considerably in recent years. In Spain, approximately 800,000 patients receive this type of treatment.1 Similarly, the use of antiplatelet drugs has increased for the secondary prevention of atherothrombotic episodes. Many of these patients with antithrombotic therapy require a surgical or endoscopic procedure on either a scheduled or urgent basis. Thus, clinicians involved in the care of these patients frequently have to decide whether to interrupt or maintain antithrombotic treatment. To do so, we must consider and try to weigh the patient's baseline risk for thrombosis (which is why this medication is prescribed), their individual hemorrhagic risk and the risk associated with the intervention or procedure to be performed.

Although there are recommendations for the perioperative management of these patients,2–7 in general these have not been widely implemented in routine clinical practice because they are limited to certain specialties and do not contemplate all the antithrombotic therapy modalities currently available, such as the recently introduced direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC). For these reasons, a workgroup was organized in 2016, coordinated by the Spanish Society of Cardiology. This group includes representatives from most of the scientific societies involved in the management of patients receiving antithrombotic treatment and requiring surgery or a procedure with a certain hemorrhagic risk. In response to the request made by the Spanish Society of Cardiology, the Spanish Association of Surgeons, through its Board of Directors, proposed that I become its representative in that working group.

The result of the activities of the representatives from the 23 societies involved has been reflected in a consensus document, recently published in the Revista Española de Cardiología (Spanish Journal of Cardiology),8 whose objective is to homogenize clinical practice to whatever extent possible. To this end, they propose a series of recommendations for the perioperative management of patients receiving antithrombotic treatment. First of all, the published document analyzes the potential thromboembolic risk of the patient, which it stratifies as low, moderate and high, depending on the reason for which the anticoagulant or antiplatelet treatment was prescribed. In addition, it considers the hemorrhagic risk depending on the intervention or procedure to be performed, which is also classified as low, moderate or high risk. As an addendum, a detailed table is included that shows the potential hemorrhagic risk of different interventions depending on the specialty, as well as various anesthesiology, endoscopy, cardiology or interventional radiology procedures. As for general and digestive surgery, minor skin and subcutaneous cellular tissue surgery, non-complex wall surgery and proctology surgery are considered procedures with a low risk of hemorrhage. On the other hand, major hepatic and pancreatic surgery, complex oncological surgery, interventions for digestive hemorrhage, complex endocrine surgery and severe abdominal trauma procedures are considered high bleeding risk interventions.

Other recommendations included in the document refer to the withdrawal and reintroduction of anticoagulant and antiplatelet treatment in scheduled surgery. In this regard, there is currently controversy about the need for a bridge therapy, for example, with heparin in patients receiving vitamin K antagonists. In recent years, acenocoumarol (Sintrom®) is usually suspended in our setting around 5 days before a scheduled operation and substituted with a low-molecular weight heparin. However, recent prospective studies have shown that this bridge therapy is associated with an increased risk of bleeding complications, without reducing thrombotic risk, compared to the maintenance of vitamin K antagonist treatment.9 As for acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), it should be noted that a maintained low dose (100mg daily) is recommended until surgery, except in interventions with a very high risk of hemorrhage or with a risk of serious consequences, such as in neurosurgery. In these cases, treatment could be suspended 3 days before the scheduled operation. Recommendations are also included for patients receiving other antiplatelet or dual antiplatelet therapies.

Of particular interest are the section and corresponding algorithm about the management of patients receiving antithrombotic treatment and requiring urgent surgery, which include recommendations for DOAC (increasingly used in our setting, especially in patients with atrial fibrillation). The indications and doses of vitamin K and blood products (plasma and prothrombin complex concentrates),10,11,4 as well as recently approved specific antidotes for DOAC, are also contemplated: idarucizumab for thrombin inhibitors, such as dabigatran,12 and andexanet alfa to reverse the effect of direct factor Xa inhibitors, such as rivaroxaban and apixaban.13

There are plans to publish a summary of the main recommendations and algorithms in pocket guide format. The published article and supplementary material can also be downloaded from the Revista Española de Cardiología website (revespcardiol.org), free of charge, in both Spanish and English.8

In short, this document is the result of a commendable multidisciplinary effort led and coordinated by the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Undoubtedly, the information provided in this consensus document will allow Spanish surgeons to have practical action guidelines for the perioperative management of patients receiving antithrombotic treatment that it is safer and in line with scientific evidence. To this end, it would be desirable for all clinicians involved in the care of these patients – surgeons, anesthesiologists, hematologists, etc. – to jointly review these recommendations and implement them (with adaptations when necessary) in their work setting.

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Please cite this article as: Arcelus Martínez JI. Manejo perioperatorio del paciente que recibe tratamiento antitrombótico: documento de consenso multidisciplinar. Cir Esp. 2019;97:245–246.

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