>I have never understood about the newer anticoagulants monitoring. Is there just no test to monitor them or do they really need no monitoring? The latter point seems counterintuitive to me.<
The new oral anticoagulants do not need monitoring; their action is much more specific than that of warfarin, which affects multiple factors in the coagulation cascade.
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