VTE Treatment

Duration

100

This is the minimum amount of days of treatment to be considered complete with initiation phase

What is 5 days?

200

This is the minimum number of days a patient must bridge therapy when initiating warfarin

What is 5 days?

300

This is the minimum duration of anticoagulation therapy for the treatment phase of VTE

What is 3 months?

400

This is the frequency a patient should be reevaluated for VTE extended phase therapy

What is annually?

500

This agent is a direct thrombin inhibitor and requires parenteral anticoagulation prior to initiation for this time frame 

What is 5-10 days?

Symptoms

100

This subtype of DVT can occur if a patient has active cancer 

What is provoked chronic DVT?

200

This test was conducted when the provider flexed the patient's ankle and excruciating pain was felt in the patient's calf

What is the Homan’s Sign Test?

300

This test can be used to rule out an acute VTE because it is a byproduct of clot degradation

What is D-dimer?

400

This is the blood pressure that would be considered appropriate to initiate thrombolytic therapy for a PE   

What is systolic blood pressure less than 90 mmHg?

500

This diagnostic tool is to DVT as this diagnostic tool is to PE 

What is venography? What is pulmonary angiogram? 

Agent

100

This agent maintenance dose is patient specific

What is Warfarin (Coumadin or Jantoven)?

200

This agent prevents the conversion of fibrogen to fibrin 

What is Dabigatran (Pradaxa)?

300

This agent is FDA approved for pediatrics and active cancer patients

What is Dalteparin (Fragmin)?

400

This agent can be double dosed if a patient forgets to take their 1st dose of the day for the first 21 days of therapy 

What is Rivaroxaban (Xarelto)?

500

This agent is dose adjust based on the patient's actual body weight

What is Edoxaban (Savaysa)?

Considerations

100

This agent does not require renal dose adjustment if being used for VTE treatment 

What is Apixaban (Eliquis)?

200

This dosing regimen is used for treatment of Enoxaparin (Lovenox) for VTE treatment

What is 1 mg/kg every 12 hours of the patient's total body weight?

300

This dosing regimen of alteplase is used for thrombolytic treatment of a PE

What is 100 mg IV infused over 2 hours?

400

This patient is contraindicated for anticoagulation due to high bleeding risk so the provider recommended this procedure to help blood flow around the clot?

What is Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter?

500

This laboratory test should be monitored if a patient is started on a heparin drip but takes apixaban 5 mg twice daily at home (last dose was 01/11/2024 at 2100)

What is APPT?