DOACS

The Challenge For patients presenting with acute ischaemic stroke, time is brain. The decision to administer thrombolysis must be made within a narrow window — and for patients taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), that decision has historically been complicated by one critical question: how much anticoagulant is on board right now? Standard laboratory DOAC plasma testing takes 45–60 minutes — often too slow to inform a timely thrombolysis decision. As a result, many cl

Approximately one in five patients on DOACs facing bleeding or urgent surgery show no detectable DOAC levels. Notably, the  DOASENSE  test strip offers outstanding negative predictive value and was not mentioned in this article. There is a need to increase the knowledge around DOAC testing, as mentioned by the authors in this paper the awareness of clinicians of the need to obtain a rapid DOAC level, as with an INR result for warfarin in an emergency, is lacking. DOASENSE is

In addition to established thromboelastometry assays, #ClotPro provides a unique assay that can evaluate the inhibitory effect on Xa...

Recently presented at the ISTH Congress, the below posters were presented highlighting the use of #DOASENSE DOAC Dipstick® test is...