New Orleans Pradaxa Side Effects Attorneys – Risk of Excessive Bleeding

As with other blood thinners, Pradaxa increases the risk of excessive bleeding in patients who take it. However, this medication is far more dangerous than traditional blood thinners for two important reasons. First, and most importantly, it has no known reversal agent or antidote. While doctors can treat Coumadin bleeding events with reversal agents, such as Vitamin K, there is no similar treatment available for patients taking Pradaxa. That means that bleeding incidents that might be little more than inconveniences for patients taking Coumadin can become life-threatening or even deadly events for individuals taking Pradaxa.
Second, there is no standard test to measure the anticoagulant effects. One of the main “selling points”  is that, unlike Coumadin, it does not require dietary restrictions or regular monitoring with blood tests. However, this also means that doctors often cannot detect the risk of a Pradaxa bleeding event in advance, and patients may not receive medical attention for such events until their symptoms get so bad that they seek hospitalization or emergency attention. Unfortunately for many patients, by the time they realize what is happening, the bleeding has progressed to a dangerous level, and doctors can do little to control the hemorrhaging.