Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 9 , Pages 1276-1279 , September 2009

Anticoagulation of patients on chronic warfarin undergoing arrhythmia device surgery: Wide variability of perioperative bridging in Canada

  • Andrew D. Krahn, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Hamilton Health Sciences Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Andrew D. Krahn, C6-113, London Health Sciences Centre University Campus, 339 Windermere Road, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5A5
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  • Jeffrey S. Healey, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Hamilton Health Sciences Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • Christopher S. Simpson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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  • Vidal Essebag, MD

      Affiliations

    • McGill University Health Center and Sacré Coeur Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Soori Sivakumaran, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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  • David H. Birnie, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Received 7 April 2009 ,Accepted 27 May 2009.

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 Dr. Krahn is a Career Investigator of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and is supported by a grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (NA3397). Dr. Essebag is the recipient of a Clinician Scientist Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

PII: S1547-5271(09)00576-1

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.05.027

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 9 , Pages 1276-1279 , September 2009

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