Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate mesylate), a new oral anticoagulant, achieved Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) approval on October 19, 2010. One notable advantage of using Pradaxa to replace Warfarin to prevent clot formation is the elimination of INR testing in patients taking Pradaxa. INR is the acronym for International Normalized Ratio, which is used to monitor the effectiveness of anticoagulant such as warfarin.
The fda approved the new drug pradaxa for taxes and it’s supposed to be prescribed to patients who suffer from the cardiac disorder atrial fibrillation atrial fibrillation is the most common form of abnormal heart rhythm patients who suffer from atrial fibrillation or afib as doctors call it have inconsistent electrical activity in their heart causing the upper
Chambers to be too frequently as a result the heart does not beat efficiently and the work can pool in the upper chambers of the heart when it can cause reform which increase the patient’s chance of suffering a stroke the use of blood thinners to treat patients with afib is not new or a friend is taking coumadin it has been the go-to treatment for patients with
Atrial fibrillation for years the problem with taking coumadin is that patients must see their doctor frequently to have less work done in order to monitor their blood clotting factors if we just wrist for patients who take blood thinners it’s what happens when they have a bad accident or if they need emergency surgery since their blood does not clot normally they
Run the risk of bleeding out unless they receive emergency medical attention fortunately ordos on coumadin papers can quickly and effectively reverse the blood thinning effect by administering vitamin k four part red blood cells after that treatment the patient can safely undergo surgery the new drug pradaxa is also it works differently than coumadin but is supposed
To accomplish the same result the sales pitch for pradaxa is the fact that patients don’t have to go to their doctor regularly to have their blood levels checked that certainly sounds a lot more convenient than criminal acts is significantly different than coumadin and one very important aspect there’s nobody to emergently reverse the blood thinning effects of
Pradaxa so if a patient who’s on feed axa has a bad accident or needs emergency surgery they were simply out of luck because he will simply bleed to death there’s nothing their doctor can do the manufacturer pradaxa boehringer ingelheim has admitted that in the short time since the drug was first launched in 1 2010 over 260 deaths have been caused by pradaxa a
Quick review of food axes website does not even mention the fact that the blood thinning effects of the drug cannot be reversed in an emergency we first heard that pradaxa could cause surgical patients to bleed to death in the physician who claims only that a patient of his had bled to death during surgery he was frustrated that there was nothing that he could
Do to prevent this tragedy he was furious that the fda had approved a drug that can kill patients when there were safer alternative drugs that were effective and had stood the test of time to come to this danger it appears that physicians are prescribing pradaxa for general anticoagulation and not just for the treatment of atrial fibrillation this is commonly
Referred to as often they will use the institute for safe medication practices as doctors are prescribing pradaxa for off-label use this as often as they are to reduce the risk of stroke in afib patients this is the thing that predicts is even more dangerous in patients with impaired kidney function since pradaxa is eliminated from the body through the kidneys
If a patient’s kidneys are not working properly and emilee high levels of pradaxa can remain in the body when this occurs you can delay the patient suffers even something as simple as it also can be life-threatening finally relax it has a very short shelf life and must be used within 60 days after it is dispensed some pharmacists are very concerned that patients
Will use the drug after it’s expiration date even doctors who conducted the most recent scientific studies on pradaxa have been quoted recently as saying that they were completely unaware of the fact that the drugs have expired so soon after being dispensed all that would not be helpful in this case before you take any drug ask doctor about the risks and always
Read the warning labels very very carefully there will happen safer alternatives to any drug
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Dangerous Drugs – Do You Know About Pradaxa? By Searcy Law Video
