Anticoagulants
This type of medication helps prevent blood clots from getting bigger.
What are anticoagulants?
This common medication is used to help prevent heart attacks and strokes and can cause GI upset.
What is aspirin (ASA)?
These medications are sometimes called “clot busters.”
What are thrombolytics?
This is the name for the process by which the body makes blood cells.
What is hematopoiesis?
This blood product is used for severe anemia and increases the number of red blood cells.
What are packed red blood cells (PRBCs)?
This IV anticoagulant is often used for DVT and PE in the hospital.
What is heparin?
Antiplatelet drugs mainly prevent platelets from doing this.
What is clumping/aggregating?
Thrombolytics are used to treat this type of stroke when given in the right time window.
What is an acute ischemic stroke?
Epoetin alfa helps the body make more of these blood cells.
What are red blood cells?
This blood product is given when a patient has very low platelets or is bleeding with thrombocytopenia.
What are platelets?
This is the antidote for heparin overdose.
What is protamine sulfate?
This ADP inhibitor is often used after stent placement to prevent clots.
What is clopidogrel (Plavix)?
This serious complication is the main risk with thrombolytic therapy.
What is bleeding/hemorrhage?
Filgrastim increases the number of these infection-fighting cells.
What are neutrophils (white blood cells)
This product is used to replace clotting factors and can reverse warfarin.
What is fresh frozen plasma (FFP)?
This oral anticoagulant is a vitamin K antagonist used to prevent DVT and stroke in atrial fibrillation.
What is warfarin (Coumadin)?
A major side effect to monitor for with antiplatelet drugs.
What is bleeding?
Alteplase (Activase) works by turning plasminogen into this enzyme that dissolves clots.
What is plasmin?
A common reason to give erythropoietin in chronic kidney disease is to treat this condition.
What is anemia?
This protein solution helps expand blood volume by pulling fluid into the bloodstream with oncotic pressure.
What is albumin?
These “LMWH” drugs (like enoxaparin) are given in the abdomen to help prevent DVT after surgery.
What are low molecular weight heparins?
This IV antiplatelet (a glycoprotein inhibitor) is given during some heart procedures and increases bleeding risk.
What is abciximab (ReoPro)?
Besides MI and stroke, thrombolytics can be used to open this type of IV line when it is blocked by a clot.
What is a central IV (central line)?
Sargramostim (Leukine) is given after bone marrow transplant to help increase this broad group of cells.
What are white blood cells/WBCs?
Name one common sign that a transfusion reaction may be happening (for example, with PRBCs).
What is fever, chills, or shortness of breath? (Any one is acceptable.)