Idarucizumab can also be used prophylactically in patients taking dabigatran who need emergency surgery or other urgent procedures. Dabigatran's labeling originally recommended surgical hemostasis or transfusion of fresh frozen plasma or red blood cells in cases of severe bleeding.Ī new direct antidote to treat life-threatening or uncontrolled bleeding related to dabigatran use, idarucizumab (Praxbind), has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Until recently, there was no direct antidote for overdosage or hemorrhage related to dabigatran use. Warfarin (Coumadin) also increases the risk of bleeding, but dabigatran carries a higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, as well as a higher risk of bleeding in older adults. Like all anticoagulants, dabigatran increases a patient's risk of major bleeding. The anticoagulant dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa), is a direct thrombin inhibitor approved in 2010 to reduce the risk of stroke and embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.

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