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.
http://www.theheart.org/article/1435651.do?utm_medium=email&utm_source=20120820_EN_Heartwire&utm_campaign=newsletter
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer provide financial support for the PINNACLE-AF registry.
And, no surprise, they're surprised (!) at the low up-take of the use of the new anti-coag drugs!!
Still flogging them while there's still no reversal protocol available.
" 87.4% were treated with warfarin in 2011 while just 12.6% were prescribed one of the two newly available oral anticoagulants."
"he added that physicians can be slow to change treatment patterns and are skeptical of new drugs" (I add, hurray for those physicians! I am too.)
Perhaps it's because of all the class action lawsuits being prominently displayed on our computer screens? But that may not be the reason----- it's probably because doctors 'are skeptical' of new drugs. I'm sure they don't pay attention to those lawsuits. Instead they go to pubmed and other sites to read about them.
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer provide financial support for the PINNACLE-AF registry.
And, no surprise, they're surprised (!) at the low up-take of the use of the new anti-coag drugs!!
Still flogging them while there's still no reversal protocol available.
" 87.4% were treated with warfarin in 2011 while just 12.6% were prescribed one of the two newly available oral anticoagulants."
"he added that physicians can be slow to change treatment patterns and are skeptical of new drugs" (I add, hurray for those physicians! I am too.)
Perhaps it's because of all the class action lawsuits being prominently displayed on our computer screens? But that may not be the reason----- it's probably because doctors 'are skeptical' of new drugs. I'm sure they don't pay attention to those lawsuits. Instead they go to pubmed and other sites to read about them.
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm248746.htm
It has a very short expiry date (30 days) when dispensed in bottles and directions say not to put the pills in a weekly pill organizer because the bottle cap has a desiccant in it.
It's available in blister paks (which might add to the cost) but those pills can't be put into a pill organizer unless the blister is not broken.
Sorta like the latest and best new operating system or software on a computer. Let the bugs be shaken out first, then I'll spend my money.
What I find rather interesting is many women hopped on the new generation of birth control pills when those came out without giving that a second thought. People want convenience, they want to find a better way, and newer drugs, regardless of what they are, want to improve on the older drugs. But there is a risk sometimes with doing that, ie not knowing a whole hell of a lot about them as a consumer.
It's the NOW Generation.
I don't think Pradaxa et al. are worse than warfarin in general except for that pesky reversal problem. In fact a term used when comparing them to warfarin is "noninferior". LOL (Took me a while figure out what the heck they said!)
But obviously the reports didn't mention how inferior it was in the 'reversal' arena. (grin)
Oh, I AM! I most definitely am. (grin)