Given the amount and complexity of information surrounding the the target specific oral
anticoagulants a lengthy didactic educational format has the potential to be overwhelming to
the reader and difficult to translate and apply to direct patient care. The proposed book will
educate clinicians utilizing a series of clinical cases to simultaneously develop the readers'
knowledge base problem-solving skills and practically apply their new knowledge to a variety
of clinical situations. These will be short focused case presentations that provide critical
information and pose questions to the reader at key points in the decision making process. The
cases will be relevant to what clinicians will encounter not only on a daily basis but also
reflective of scenarios that clinicians will not encounter regularly but that they will have
to act upon (e.g. a bleeding patient patient scheduled for elective or emergent procedure
patient with changing renal function patient on drugs that have a plausible yet unstudied drug
interaction with a target specific oral anticoagulant etc). Included in the case studies will
be evidence-based discussions (with appropriate references) that provide immediate feedback on
the different treatment alternatives that were offered. The case studies will be designed to
instruct the reader how to select and effectively utilize the most appropriate agent for a
given clinical scenario. They will focus on key features of the target specific oral
anticoagulants what they have in common how they are unique from each other as well as
illustrating the clinical decision process one should take when selecting an agent or managing
a patient already receiving one of the target specific oral agents.
