A systematic approach to scoring bleeding risk in regional anesthesia procedures

An anticoagulation risk with regional anesthesia has been the subject of many articles and guidelines [1]. Recent guidelines now classify the common regional or pain procedures according to the potential risk of serious bleeding. There are several excellent review guidelines describing the appropriate alterations to anticoagulation regimes based on the risk of the regional procedure [2, 3]. Typically, these guidelines categorized procedures as low-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk. However, the approach and methodology to how a procedure is classified to be in a certain risk category is seldom explained.
Source: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research