Footnotes

• Contributors RM and CAK contributed to the design of the manuscript, acquisition of the data, drafting of the work and approval of the final manuscript. NR and BP contributed to the antiplatelet section including the design, drafting and final approval. DK contributed to the anticoagulant section including the design, drafting and final approval. JHN was the overall in-charge of the work. He conceptualised the project, contributed to the design and drafting of the work and was responsible for final approval of the whole of the manuscript. He is the corresponding author for this article.

• Competing interests None.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.