Articles / NOACs – surgery and everything else
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These are activities that expand general practice knowledge, skills and attitudes, related to your scope of practice.
These are activities that require reflection on feedback about your work.
These are activities that use your work data to ensure quality results.
If you work in a truly general general practice you will no doubt be familiar with this scenario. The patient on a NOAC who is going for a dental procedure, cataract operation or arthroscopy.
Do they need to stop their NOAC? And if so, when and for how long?
Often there are more than a couple of opinions out there, with a lot of different considerations to take into account.
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