Cardiac Arrhythmia - Diagnosis and Management

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Risk of Blood Loss

Most often, patients taking blood-thinning drugs like Coumadin, Heparin, and Lovenox know that the risk of excessive blood loss is present and take precautions. Unfortunately, medical care providers don’t always match patients’ diligence, and injuries and wrongful death can occur.

Blood loss and clots from blood-thinning drugs usually occur in one of three ways:

Healthcare professionals stop monitoring a patient’s international normalized ratio (INR) prematurely, resulting in too-thin blood, excessive bleeding, cardiac arrhythmia or a blood clot.
Medical care professionals fail to adjust drug intake and INR levels prior to surgery, resulting in excessive bleeding during an operation.
The patient suffers trauma (like car accident injuries) and experiences excessive and harmful loss of blood due to too-thin blood. Or, a physician fails to adjust medication levels following an injury.

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Blood-thinning drugs affect each patient differently and health care professionals need to provide attentive care to ensure proper medication levels. If you were put on a blood-thinning medication and subsequently experienced a serious blood loss or blood clot injury, medical negligence may lead to your injuries.

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