Anticoagulation

Question 1

1st line VTE prophylaxis anticoagulant in surgical patients

bonus points for drug preferred in renal impairment

Answer 1

a low molecular weight heparin such as dalteparin

unfractionated heparin in people with renal impairment

Question 2

how many days before surgery should warfarin be stopped?

Answer 2

5

Question 3

in patients who have stopped warfarin before surgeyr, at what INR should you reverse the warfarin with vitamin K

Answer 3

anything over 1.5

vitamin K is called phyto mena dione

will find this drug in oral anticoag treatment sumary