Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
I have been on Pradaxa for 3 months now instead of coumadin. I could not get regulated on Coumadin after 6 months of therapy.
The drawback to Pradaxa is the lack of a reversal agent when needed like the Vitamin K shot for Coumadin.
However, Baylor University is working on a protocol for use with the newer anticoagulants and has had some success. I found the article on theheart.org but you must have a membership to access (which is free).
Article is entitled: Role Reversal: Hematologists Advise on Bleeding With Newer Anticoagulants
I printed it and keep a copy in my purse in case I have to go to the ER so they can see the effective protocol.
The drawback to Pradaxa is the lack of a reversal agent when needed like the Vitamin K shot for Coumadin.
However, Baylor University is working on a protocol for use with the newer anticoagulants and has had some success. I found the article on theheart.org but you must have a membership to access (which is free).
Article is entitled: Role Reversal: Hematologists Advise on Bleeding With Newer Anticoagulants
I printed it and keep a copy in my purse in case I have to go to the ER so they can see the effective protocol.
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Nationalday.com proclaims September 28th as Self Aware Day. I took a few snaps of various core values lists and tried to pick my top five core values (kinda hard to only pick 5). But here are my top picks. Feel free to list a few of yours too:GodLovePeaceStability Compassion
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Now that I am not talking to my whatever best friend, I realized that her life is full of drama. I had grown tired of hearing her stories about her boyfriend many months ago. She basically had been monopolizing conversations for that long too. She pretty much stopped asking me questions about me. I passed her in front of her classroom the other day and didn't even look at her. I am...
http://www.stoptheclot.org/News/article309.htm
No mention there of the problem of non-reversal which led the people in the other forum to hail that as 'great news'.
Stop the clot was 'just' reporting what the NEJM reported-----
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""CONCLUSIONS
A fixed-dose regimen of rivaroxaban alone was noninferior to standard therapy for the initial and long-term treatment of pulmonary embolism and had a potentially improved benefitrisk profile."
(Funded by Bayer HealthCare and Janssen Pharmaceuticals; EINSTEIN-PE ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00439777.)
Supported by Bayer HealthCare and Janssen Pharmaceuticals."
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1113572?query=featured_home
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I would hope that stoptheclot could add their addendum to present what seems to be the greatest pitfall for using the 'new and great' anti-coags.
I wasn't trying to denigrate stoptheclot-----but it is one of the sites that people get referred to a lot (and mostly for good reasons).
It's just, with the Internet, and with people not wanting to, or incapable of investigating further, it's taken at face value and as the truth; "It's written on stoptheclot, isn't it?"