According to the research presented at American Heart Association’s suggested staying active and following procedures before it’s too late to consider. Its use is safe and easy for people who are on the antiplatelet medication ticagrelor and need urgent coronary artery bypass surgery.
A Blood Thinner Medicine Used To Treat As An Anticoagulant In Blood
Derek, M.D, a cardiologist, said by discontinuing ticagrelor, there are no significant bleeding increases when people are under bypass surgery. It’s safe after 2 to 3 days of surgery also. Before these findings, people assumed that there would be severe bleeding in the presence of a strong blood thinner.
‘ticagrelor’ is one of the commonly prescribed blood thinners. The main purpose of blood thinners is to prevent blood clots, and we know a small clot can cause severe health conditions. The blood clot can put you at the risk of heart stroke, heart attack, and many other serious problems are also caused.
In most cases, the blood-thinning leads to a poor health condition that goes to a tough time for the body. As per a fresh study in this field by a group of experts, the anticoagulant treatment can help such patients get the blood thin in a short span that can lead to better flow of the same in the body as required and help maintain the health of each organ to its required standard.
A small, single blood clot in the heart can give you serious damage as unstable angina will be produced. Afterward, cardiac events get disturbed in the future, and if cardiac events get disturbed chance of death also increases. In that instance, ticagrelor works by preventing blood platelets from sticking together and thus inhibiting the formation of the blood clot.
Coronary artery bypass surgery is treated through coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as heart bypass. When a patient’s artery becomes narrowed or blocked due to a clot there coronary artery bypass grafting is carried out. Here blood thinner help to reduce heart attacks by thinning your blood and preventing blood clots from initiating.
A blood thinner is a kind of drug and acts as an anticoagulant. Guidelines stated by researchers recommend stopping the taking of ticagrelor before 5 -7 days of bypass surgery as there is a risk of severe bleeding during the surgery. Although the risk of heart attack and angina pains during this 5 – 7 day of not taking the ticagrelor pill. But you need to bear this pain to reduce the risk of massive bleeding.
The threat of safe taking a short break to stop taking ticagrelor is evaluated through the Reassessment of Anti-Platelet Therapy in patients. Patients with acute coronary syndromes treated by coronary artery bypass graft surgery trial to assess the presence of bleeding after bypass surgery.
Two groups were formed in which one group stopped medicine before 2-3 days of surgery, and the other stopped medicine before 5-7 days of surgery. The patients from both groups show the same kind of characteristics and health conditions.
The result from the trials conducted in two groups found that the early surgery stopping medicine shoes no risk of increased bleeding and other post-surgery group shoes the same rate of bleeding. One good result found from the trial is that stay in hospital is reduced in the early surgery group compared to another group.
Research conducted with these groups concluded early surgery is safe with the current guidelines. People often worry about is it safe to stop ticagrelor before 5-7 days of surgery, but now from the research, it is concluded that stopping medicine before 2-3 days of surgery is also safe.
