Anticoagulant

prophylaxis and participating in rehabilitation, an ultrasound doppler of his legs revealed four deep vein thrombosis, one in the left knee, left calve, and two more DVTs in the patients right calve. He was transferred to the critical care unit for anticoagulant therapy to try to dissolve the clots and monitor his condition. His diagnosis was multiple Pulmonary Embolisms and Deep vein thrombosis. Besides osteoarthritis the patient has no other underlying medical…

o Another name for a PCV is hematocrit. o A PCV is the measurement of the ratio of packed red cells in a known volume of whole blood sample. o The procedure is to take blood from your patient and put it into a purple top tube, which has the anticoagulant EDTA in it. • Next you need to fill 2 micro hematocrit tubes with the blood about ¾ a way full. You need to do two in order to balance the centrifuge. • After you have filled the tubes you need to plug one side with clay. • Next you need…

Drug companies are often used to promote certain drugs to educate patients by making flyers. Many medical practitioners support this and use the flyers as a primary source of information for patients to use. While looking at flyers though, it is important to check for its credibility and accuracy. In the world, there are thousands of different kinds of drugs that can be prescribed and each drug does something different. One of the many drugs that is very important in blood thinning is Coumadin.…

DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS (DVT) COURTNEY BENHAM PHLEBOTOMY AND HEMATOLOGY SEPTEMBER 1,2015 Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a condition that will happen when a thrombosis (blood clot) forms in the deep veins in the muscles of your body. Most commonly DVT is found in the legs, but can occur anywhere in the body. DVT can restrict blood flow through the vein, causing pain and swelling. Signs and symptoms of DVT include; swelling in your foot, ankle or leg, cramping in the affected leg felt mostly in the…

Variability in effectiveness and side effects of certain medical interventions among patients is well accepted. Indeed most doctors would agree that a “cookie-cutter approach” to medicine is not best practice and a more concrete approach that offers some predictability about which patients are more or less likely to benefit from an intervention is favored. Precision medicine offers such an approach. Briefly precision medicine involves factoring in individual variability in genes, environment and…

diagnosis: Diagnosis is usually made from patient history and find other causes of heart failure. (The signs and symptoms for heart failure dyspnea, fluid retention, peripheral edema, nausea.) The most helpful tools of the diagnosis is echocardiogram. The chest x-ray identify the heart enlargement. Character’s : • Heart failure symptoms, including unexplained right heart failure • Arrhythmias • Conduction abnormalities • Thromboembolic events • angina pectoris managements : Heart-Healthy…

This combination of properties makes AT III a very powerful and important endogenous anticoagulant molecule [133]. AT III inactivates thrombin and other coagulation factors such as IXa, Xa, XIa, and XIIa (where “a” denotes an “activated” factor) by forming a stoichiometric complex with the coagulation factor [134]. The catalytic-site serine…

Kathryn R. is a 57-year old woman who has a history of mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation and high blood pressure. Mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation is a condition where the mitral valve doesn’t close properly, leading to regurgitation where the blood leaks backwards when the heart beats. The blood is then unable to reach the rest of the body, pushing the heart to pump harder in order for the blood to go to the body. Kathryn’s hypertension is a risk factor that has lead to her…

Wall of Silence Journal One Despite all the medical advancement over the years, medical errors continue to negatively affect patient safety. A medical error is defined as a preventable adverse effect of medical care whether evident or harmful to the patient (Medical Scribe Journal, 2017). Before this course I was aware of how medical errors could easily occur in the medical field. Since the beginning of nursing school, in Foundations, instructors emphasized strongly on safety checks for any…

I. Introduction There is an increasing trend of workforce diversity throughout the business community. Only a few decades ago, or less, what was considered the norm changed. Where men were the predominant gender in the workforce, now both genders fill positions in nearly equal numbers (Kronos Inc., 2005). Previously, demographics such as religion, race, religious affiliation, age, and physical disabilities, may have been excluded from work environments, yet now they find opportunities abound…