03.03.2014 - By Billy Lin, MD and Tina Lien, BSc Pharm
Antiplatelets:
ASA
Clopidogrel
Anticoagulants:
Warfarin
Apixaban
Dabigatran
Rivaroxaban
Clotting Cascade:
Clotting Factor Song, by Emily Anne Nagler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9yPHH3FmY
Twelve, eleven, nine, it’s clotting factor time
8 and 9 to 10a 5, that’s how we stay alive
Don’t forget to say: the tissue factor way
7 to 7a helps 10 go to 10a
Then 2 to thrombin, and 1 to fibrin
And that’s how it ends