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Tag: handout

  • Handout for Your Patients in Clinic – Which Anticoagulant to Use for DVT and PE

    Stephan Moll, MD writes…  Patients who are on warfarin for a history of DVT or PE  may inquire whether a switch to one of the  new oral anticoagulants is appropriate.  Similarly, many physicians initiate this discussion with their patients. This is, obviously, a detailed discussion and an individualized decision with a number of factors to be considered.…

  • HIT (Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia)

    A detailed discussion of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) written for patients is available on the Clot Connect Patient blog- connect here. We hope that the health care professional will consider this document to be suitable as an information handout to his/her patients with HIT. The discussion also contains 2 resources for use by the health care provider: