Pharmacology · Module 9 · Anticoagulants, antiplatelets and blood drugs

Blood Drugs Lab

Test clotting drugs on a cascade bench, run a warfarin patient for eight weeks, work nursing cases and sort the drugs. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Clotting Drug Bench

Platelet Fibrin Plasmin Active factor Drug Usual target zone

A teaching model with relative effects, not real drug levels or doses. Lab values are common teaching values; real targets and normal ranges vary by lab and protocol. The INR is mainly a warfarin test, and the aPTT is mainly a heparin test, so other drugs change them only a little or unreliably.