Stroke prevention in real-life practice

We have greatly enjoyed reading the recently published article by McIntyre et al [1] . The authors distributed a 16-question, Web-based survey to Canadian residency programs and each scenario involved a 76-year-old man with new atrial fibrillation (AF) and a CHADS2 score of 3. The authors revealed the discordance between clinical guidelines for stroke prevention in AF and the practice of Canadian emergency medicine residents. Despite ranking the risk of adverse events as their most important consideration and the superior safety profile of those non –vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), residents underused this class of agents compared with warfarin.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research