What Is the Antidote for Warfarin?

Vitamin K1 is the only effective antidote for long-term management, but it takes several hours to reverse anticoagulation. Oral vitamin K1 has excellent bioavailability, is rapidly absorbed, and is recommended in the absence of serious or life-threatening hemorrhage.

Which drug is used as an antidote for warfarin?

Vitamin K (phytonadione)

Does warfarin have an antidote?

Reversal agents – the best antidote

Vitamin K is the reversal agent for warfarin, and FDA recently approved the first reversal agent for the class of “new anticoagulant drugs,” Praxbind (idrucizumab).

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