6. Anticoagulant Therapy

Audit of anticoagulant therapy.

Computer assisted anticoagulant therapy.

The constantly workload increase has led to the development of Computerised Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for a better management of patient care. Many clinical situations have been investigated to verify the utility of CDSS: few have demonstrated stable effects. One area where success has been reported is the field of oral anticoagulation management. CDSS system has demonstrated to be able t...

Long-term anticoagulant therapy.

Experience with long-term anticoagulant therapy during the past seven years has been sumnmarized. This report is based on the records of 227 individuals treated as private or outpatient clinic patients for from four weeks to seven years. Where adequate laboratory facilities are available outpatient long-term therapy may be satisfactorily controlled by physicians familiar with the use of anticoa...

Long-term Anticoagulant Therapy.

Experience with long-term anticoagulant therapy during the past seven years has been sumnmarized. This report is based on the records of 227 individuals treated as private or outpatient clinic patients for from four weeks to seven years. Where adequate laboratory facilities are available outpatient long-term therapy may be satisfactorily controlled by physicians familiar with the use of anticoa...

Haemorrhage Complicating Anticoagulant Therapy

these episodes 16 were serious. Hazard et al (1967) reported ten cases of intracranial haemorrhage during a two and a half year pertiod. iSeventy-six haemorrhagic episodes were reported duning the treatment of 507 patients during a five year period (Serradiim'igni, 1969) while Straub (1970) recorded 13 deaths from haemorrhage in 70 patients treated with anticoagulant therapy. Bleeding was detec...