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Name: Julie Johnson Quiz # 6: (Chapter 32)

PHSC 4940 Due Date: Friday, October 14th, 2016

Drugs Affecting Blood Coagulation Note: Please review grading criteria before submitting your final answers to this quiz and all remaining quizzes. You are requested to hand in your typed or printed answer at the beginning of class, so you can get full credit and graded feedback. It is common for a patient undergoing anticoagulant therapy to start taking warfarin 3-4 days prior to discontinuing heparin. Mr. Smith is on heparin following a pulmonary embolism, and is worried that he is taking both medications prior to discharge from the hospital. Since both drugs affect the ability of the blood to clot, what measurements (clinical tests) are used to make sure that this is safe (½ point, or ¼ point for a test for each drug)? The clinical test for ensuring the safety of heparin use is to monitor the active partial thromboplastin (aPTT). The clinical testing for ensuring the safety of using warfarin is to monitor the prothrombin time or the internation normalized ratio. How do warfarin and heparin differ in their route of administration (¼ point)? Warfarin is administered orally, whereas heparin is given intravenously, or subcutaneously if it has a lower molecular weight. What is the treatment for an overdose of warfarin (¼ point)? The treatment for an overdose of warfarin is Vitamin K....