Anticoagulation
Across
- 1. catalyst for an important final step in cascade; directly inhibited by some drugs
- 3. doesn't have an antidote and less tv airtime than it's cousin
- 6. this Wisconsin based foundation shows up on prescription pads world-over
- 8. not heparin, not warfarin, but...
- 10. what lmwh agents may do in a certain organ in some patients
- 11. Mr. Worldwide and math terms
- 12. 1 mg of this is associated with 100 units of non oral anticoagulants
- 13. lab used in conjunction with heparin every 6 hours
- 14. better look at a PT lab if interested in this clotting factor
- 15. a little factor hiding in the endothelium
- 16. the most distinguished and important of the antithrombin lineage
Down
- 1. potentially fatal consequence of giving heparin in some patients
- 2. oral anticoagulant that is common yet unique in its mechanism of action
- 4. vascular damage (e.g. a cut) often initiates this cascade
- 5. heparin works on this, as opposed to what follows after a cut
- 7. big no-no with this oral medication
- 9. these inhibitors bind fibrinogen, thus blocking platelet aggregation
- 10. use this if patient develops HIT
- 12. linguists unite! ...the common part of lmwh names