Articles / NOACs – surgery and everything else

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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