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2. Antiplatelet drug - Wikipedia

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   Antiplatelet therapy with one or more of these drugs decreases the ability of blood clots to form by interfering with the platelet activation process in primary hemostasis. Antiplatelet drugs can reversibly or irreversibly inhibit the process involved in platelet activation resulting in decreased tendency of platelets to adhere to one another ...

3. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust - Wikipedia

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   County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) is an NHS Foundation Trust based in North East England.It runs two acute hospitals in University Hospital of North Durham and Darlington Memorial Hospital as well as further non-acute centres at Shotley Bridge Hospital, Sedgefield Community Hospital, Richardson Community Hospital, Weardale Community Hospital, Bishop Auckland Hospital ...

4. Thrombolysis - Wikipedia

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   Thrombolysis, also called fibrinolytic therapy, is the breakdown of blood clots formed in blood vessels, using medication. It is used in ST elevation myocardial infarction, stroke, and in cases of severe venous thromboembolism (massive pulmonary embolism or extensive deep vein thrombosis). [citation needed]

5. Thrombosis prevention - Wikipedia

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   Some hospitals developed a mandatory assessment quantifying the risk for developing blood clots and a plan of care developed from the results. The person's risk for developing blood clots is entered into their record, 'following' them through their treatment regime. If the hospital stay exceeds three days, the person will be reassessed for risk.

6. National probe into deaths of NHS heart patients as scale of ...

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   The NHS consultant also warned hospitals are being forced to consider a “retrograde” step of using clot-dissolving drugs used two decades ago because people are waiting so long.

7. Deep vein thrombosis - Wikipedia

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   Thrombolysis is the injection of an enzyme into the veins to dissolve blood clots, and while this treatment has been proven effective against the life-threatening emergency clots of stroke and heart attacks, randomized controlled trials [139] [140] [141] have not established a net benefit in those with acute proximal DVT.