Managing Oral Anticoagulation Therapy: Clinical and Operational Guidelines provides the resources and information to enhance the care of patients receiving oral anticoagulation therapy. This book focuses on the anticoagulation management service—a model of anticoagulation care that is systematic, organized, and coordinated. All aspects of development and implementation of this care model are addressed.

The book is divided into two sections: Part 1, Establishing an Anticoagulation Management Service, and Part 2, The Use of Oral Anticoagulants.

Features and Benefits

• Unique collection of articles on the use of oral anticoagulants
• Guidelines and flow sheets used in anticoagulation programs
• Decrease complications, hospitalizations, and emergency department use related to anticoagulation therapy
• Increase patient satisfaction and improve quality of life
• Policy and procedure examples

Contents

Establishing an Anticoagulation Management Service

1. Historical developments in oral anticoagulation
2. The value of an anticoagulation management service
3. Guidelines for development of an anticoagulation management service
4. Personnel needs and division of labor
5. Nursing issues
6. Pharmacy issues
7. Guidelines for anticoagulation provider certification
8. Inforamtion management and monitoring the International Normalized Ratio
9. Software applications in anticoagulation management
10. Education curriculum for patients and teaching methods
11. Quality assurance for anticoagulation management services
12. Reimbursement basics for anticoagulation services: coverage, payment, and coding
13. Risk management and anticoagulation therapy
14. Medical-legal implications of anticoagulation therapy
15. Developing a business plan for an anticoagulation clinic

The use of Oral Anticoagulants

16. Physiology of coagulation and the role of vitamin k
17. Thrombogenesis and hypercoagulable states
18. Cardiovascular indications for anticoagulation therapy
19. Atrial fibrillation, stroke, and the role of anticoagulation
20. Prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism
21. Prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease in childhood
22. Anticoagulation in the antiphospholipid syndrome
23. Anticoagulation in pregnancy
24. Prothrombin time
25. Standardization of the prothrombin time
26. Intrumentation for prothrombin times
27. Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1988: Regulations
28. Capillary whole blood prothrombin time monitoring: instrumentation and methodologies
29. Pharmacology of warfarin and related anticoagulants
30. Initiation of therapy and estimation of maintenance dose
31. Managing maintenance therapy
32. Assessing risk factors for bleeding
33. Evaluation and management of excessive anticoagulation and bleeding
34. Nonhemorrhagic complications of warfarin therapy
35. Warfarin drug interactions
36. Dietary considerations
37. Managing anticoagulation during surgery and other invasive procedures
38. Managing the patient with cancer
39. The challenges and opportunities of anticoagulation compliance
40. Quality of life issues
41. Frequency of testing and therapeutic effectiveness
42. Duration of anticoagulation therapy in venous thromboembolic disease
43. Questions, answers, and pearls from anticoagulation health care providers on common issues related to anticoagulation therapy
44. Point-of-care testing: patient self-testing and patient self-management
45. Patient selection and training for patient self-testing and patient self-management of oral anticoagulation
46. Managing oral anticoagulation in the Netherlands
47. Managing oral anticoagulatn therapy: an Italian perspective

Index

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