Effect of blood thinning medications

At Kantonsspital Myunsterlingena (Switzerland) doctors conducted a study to determine the level of INR (International Normalized Ratio) in the group of patients receiving oral anticoagulants. The aim of the study was to determine the optimal average time interval between the control measurements at the level of INR (INR), reported www.mediswiss.ru anticoagulation (blood thinners) are often prescribed by doctors around the world in conditions such as atrial fibrillation, venous thromboembolism , congestive heart failure, the risk of myocardial infarction. Anticoagulation with fenprokumona and other vitamin K antagonists provides an effective therapy for the prevention of thromboembolic events. Risk of embolic stroke with atrial fibrillation - the most common symptom of the disease - reduced by about 65%. However, there are side effects Anticoagulants - bleeds. Extensive bleeding occur on average at 1.5 to 4.2% of patients on anticoagulants and cerebral hemorrhage in 0.3-0.6% of patients. But older people are at risk of bleeding is obtained significantly higher undisputed benefits of oral anticoagulation. Swiss doctors was a prospective study of practices and the quality of anticoagulation for a period of 20 months in patients receiving oral anticoagulants. Determining the level of INR (INR) was carried out with an interval of 23 days, which have later than performed sufficiently long interval. In 50% of patients the level of INR (INR) was outside the therapeutic range. Long duration of the intervals for performing follow-up studies regarding the number of indicators INR (INR) in the therapeutic range. Thus in the course of the study showed that the reduction of the intervals increases the reliability of the control. INR (International Normalized Ratio), the Latin abbreviation INR (International Normalized Ratio) - an additional way to get the result of the test for the blood clotting, for the control of anticoagulant therapy drugs by the International Committee on Thrombosis and Haemostasis and the International Committee Standardization in Hematology recommended determine.