Critical pathways exist in many hospitals for treating patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Some pathways call for “baseline laboratory studies,” including ...
The University of Washington announced that a team of researchers has developed a prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) blood clotting test that requires only a single drop of blood ...
CHICAGO (May 15, 2017): By combining a conventional laboratory measurement of blood clotting time (known as the International Normalized Ratio or INR) with a new test of blood clot strength, based ...
Secure online application developed in conjunction with Voluntis helps simplify patient management for physicians and reporting of test results for patients who self-test PT/INR INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8, ...
Because of a patient's ongoing physiological changes, what was initially an ideal dosage of a medication such as warfarin may become not-so-ideal as time passes. The drug could end up keeping the ...
COAGUCHEK XS PLUS SYSTEM anticoagulation monitor by Roche Roche announced that it has been granted CLIA-waived status by the FDA for the CoaguChek XS Plus system, a point-of-care anticoagulation ...
Michael B. Bottorff, PharmD: We’ve been using warfarin for atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention for quite some time, now. It’s an indirect acting anticoagulant. The way it works is that it blocks ...