Anticoagulants🩸🩸 Flashcards

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What is anticoagulants

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Are drugs that prevent conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin

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2
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State the indication for anticoagulants

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Deep vein thrombosis
Thrombo-embolism
Disseminated intravasculation coagulation patient will prosthetic valves in heart

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3
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State the mode of action or anticoagulants

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Interferes with blood clotting by indirect mean
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Depressing hepatic synthesis of vitamin k- dependent coagulation factors(11 7 9 10)

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4
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State the dosage routes of anticoagulants

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Administer parenterally:
Only 5,000 to 7,000 iu to be administered initially as IV push follows by 2,500 units
Subcutaneously every 24 hours

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5
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State the side effect of anticoagulants in the maternal

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Hemorrhage

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State the side effects of anticoagulants in the fetal

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Skeleton and facial deformities
optic atropy
Microcephaly

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