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In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, Dr. Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA, and Dr. Xin Qi, MD, discuss the October 2026 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Antithrombotic-Associated Bleeding: Management in the Emergency Department.
1:18 — Guest introductions
1:58 — Why the authors chose this topic
3:11 — Epidemiology
4:27 — Why DOACs over warfarin
5:15 — Bleeding trends
6:55 — Overlapping antithrombotic regimens
8:09 — Reversibility of agents
9:38 — Bedside priorities
11:31 — Bleeding patterns by drug class & three groups
13:50 — Antithrombotics & traumatic bleeding risk
14:26 — Pre-hospital considerations
16:09 — Indications for antithrombotic use & risk of reversing
17:54 — Gray-area decisions
19:02 — Initial resuscitation
20:08 — Blood product ratios
21:24 — PATCH trial
22:04 — TXA evidence
23:36 — GI bleed adjuncts
24:31 — Critical site bleeds
27:20 — Endoscopy timing
30:00 — Reversal agents
32:50 — Idarucizumab for dabigatran
33:54 — Antiplatelet reversal
36:15 — Warfarin reversal
38:36 — Protamine for heparin/LMWH
39:37 — Fibrinolytic reversal
40:14 — Pre-procedural antithrombotic management
42:39 — Emerging labs
43:50 — Wrap-up & closing promo
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In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, Dr. Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA, and Dr. Xin Qi, MD, discuss the October 2026 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Antithrombotic-Associated Bleeding: Management in the Emergency Department.
- 1:18 — Guest introductions
- 1:58 — Why the authors chose this topic
- 3:11 — Epidemiology
- 4:27 — Why DOACs over warfarin
- 5:15 — Bleeding trends
- 6:55 — Overlapping antithrombotic regimens
- 8:09 — Reversibility of agents
- 9:38 — Bedside priorities
- 11:31 — Bleeding patterns by drug class & three groups
- 13:50 — Antithrombotics & traumatic bleeding risk
- 14:26 — Pre-hospital considerations
- 16:09 — Indications for antithrombotic use & risk of reversing
- 17:54 — Gray-area decisions
- 19:02 — Initial resuscitation
- 20:08 — Blood product ratios
- 21:24 — PATCH trial
- 22:04 — TXA evidence
- 23:36 — GI bleed adjuncts
- 24:31 — Critical site bleeds
- 27:20 — Endoscopy timing
- 30:00 — Reversal agents
- 32:50 — Idarucizumab for dabigatran
- 33:54 — Antiplatelet reversal
- 36:15 — Warfarin reversal
- 38:36 — Protamine for heparin/LMWH
- 39:37 — Fibrinolytic reversal
- 40:14 — Pre-procedural antithrombotic management
- 42:39 — Emerging labs
- 43:50 — Wrap-up & closing promo
Subscribers, take the CME test here.
Emergency Medicine Residents, get your free subscription by writing resident@ebmedicine.net

Sam Ashoo, MD, FACEP, is board certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics. He serves as EB Medicine’s editor-in-chief of interactive clinical pathways and FOAMEd blog, and host of EB Medicine’s EMplify podcast. Follow him below for more…

