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The Clotting Cascade

Every anticoagulant does the same thing — it cuts one link in this chain. Learn where the drug cuts and the rest follows: which lab watches it, which antidote reverses it, and what you teach the patient. Tap a drug, or tap any factor in the diagram.

The cascade, untouched

working factorblocked by this drugpartly blocked
Two arms feed one common pathway — and the drugs cluster where the payoff is biggest.
The clotting cascadetap a drug or a factor to begin
Monitor—
Antidote—
Route—