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Hemothorax in an Uncontrolled Anticoagulated Patient: Fight or Flight?: A Case Report
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Soon Ho Chon, Sung Ho Shinn, Chul Burm Lee
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Korean J Crit Care Med. 2009;24(1):37-38.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2009.24.1.37
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- Hemothorax in a patient on anticoagulant therapy for atrial fibrillation after blunt trauma is not an uncommon event.
However, massive hemothorax in such a patient with an extremely uncontrolled and high international normalized ratio (INR) may pose a serious dilemma. We report a case of a patient under anticoagulant therapy for atrial fibrillation who underwent an emergent thoracotomy for massive hemothorax with an INR of 9.57.
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