Anticoagulants
Principles of management of thromboembolic disease
Parenteral preparations 2.8.1
Specific knowledge:
- Heparin
- Enoxaparin as a low molecular weight heparin type substance
- Practical differences between unfractionated heparin and LMWH
- Protamine sulphate
Oral preparations 2.8.2
Specific knowledge:
- Warfarin
myocardial infarction & fibrinolysis 2.10
You must be fully conversant with the clinical management pathways for acute myocardial infarction
- Fibrinolytics - alteplase (not for MI though)
- Specific knowledge
- Streptokinase
- Tenecteplase
- Reteplase