THROMBOLYTIC DRUG

thrŏmˌbəlĭtˈĭk or clot-dissolving drug, substance, such as streptokinase or tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), that causes the breakdown of blood clots (see thrombosis) that obstruct the flow of blood through the vessels. Its uses include injection during or shortly after a heart attack or stroke (see infarction) to prevent clots from blocking blood flow to the heart muscle or brain.

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books on: Thrombolytic Drug  - 23 results

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Heart Disease in Women
Book by Susan Wilansky, James T. Willerson; Churchill Livingstone, 2002
Subjects: Heart Diseases In Women
...effective antithrombin drug regimen for use with thrombolytic drugs. Candidates include low...of normal or low-dose thrombolytic drug regimens with the potent...of patients receiving thrombolytic drug with placebo or standard...
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Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
Book by David M. Cutler; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Health Behavior--United States, Health Planning--United States, Medical Care--United States, Social Medicine--United States
...Africa, 83 substance abuse, 41 suicide, 33 , 35 , 38 sulfa drugs, 2 , 4 , 77 sulfur dioxide emissions, 106 , 107 Surgeon...120 21; reduction in, 66 , 117 ; revenue from, 62 , 85 thrombolytic drug, 49 tocolytics, 24 tricyclic antidepressant TCA , 38...
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Preventing Coronary Heart Disease: Prospects, Policies, and Politics
Book by Michael Calnan; Routledge, 1991
...Another approach is intravenous thrombolytic therapy which involves administering a drug intravenously to heart attack...infarctions, involves the use of drugs, surgery and the control of...factors. Some of the favoured drug treatments are anti-coagulants, anti-systemic drugs, anti-platelet agents and...
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Healthcare Management
Book by Kieran Walshe, Judith Smith; Open University Press, 2006
Subjects: Health Facilities--Administration, Health Services Administration, Personnel Management
...underuse, overuse and misuse, and there was no shortage of practical and high-profile examples. Thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction - a drug treatment for people with heart attacks which, if given promptly reduces the likeli- hood of...
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Women, Stress, and Heart Disease
Book by Kristina Orth-Gomér, Margaret Chesney, Nanette K. Wenger; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998
Subjects: Heart Diseases In Women--Risk Factors, Stress (Physiology), Stress (Psychology), Women--Health And Hygiene
...thrombolysis, use of drugs that dissolve clots...further questions about drug therapies. Thrombolytic drugs are given in fixed...relatively higher drug dosage using these...Kennedy, 1991 ; thrombolytic drugs must be used in the...
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journal articles on: Thrombolytic Drug  - 6 results

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The Battle against Drug-Makers: An Analysis of European Union and United States Merger Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Industry 1995-1999
Journal article by Thomas B. Marcotullio; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 32, 2001
Subjects: Acquisitions and mergers--Laws, regulations, etc., Pharmaceutical industry--Acquisitions, mergers, divestments
...maintain the low cost of prescription drugs by squeezing drug company suppliers.(7) Similarly...drug costs and decrease the number of drugs available to consumers by creating drug formularies and by negotiating discounts...States buys one-third of the worlds drugs). (14.) See Drug-induced Seizures, supra note 8 (explaining...
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The FDA's Risky Risk-Aversion
Journal article by Henry I. Miller, David R. Henderson; Policy Review, 2007
Subjects: Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, Combinatorial chemistry, Drugs--Prices and rates, Gene therapy, Insurance industry, Microbial genetics, Tysabri (Medication)--Prices and rates
...therapies is long and growing. Drugs often improve the span and...whole: The responsible use of drug therapies lowers the total...which are commonly treated with drugs--actually declined by an...studies of the impacts of a thrombolytic drug in stroke patients (1) and...
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Rationalism and Empiricism in Modern Medicine
Journal article by Warren Newton; Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 64, 2001
Subjects: Empiricism--Social aspects, Evidence-based medicine--History, Medicine--Philosophy, Rationalism--Social aspects
...with numbers of patients, drug, duration of symptoms, and...different in important ways (drug chosen, timing of medication...lack of practicality of the drugs. B. How to Choose Optimal...Trial-Europe Study Group, Thrombolytic Therapy with Streptokinase...THROMBOLYSIS FOR STROKES Study N Drug Time Outcome MASTI 622 Streptokinase...
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Editorial
Journal article by Alice J. Dan, Sue V. Rosser; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003
...excluded from clinical trials of drugs because of fear of litigation...Exclusion of women from clinical drug trials was so pervasive that...Investigators, 1993) and thrombolytic therapy (Wenger, Speroff...brought against women for drug use during pregnancy in which...that women known to have used drugs or alcohol during pregnancy...1990) revealed that although drug use by both private clients...
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Progression of Strategies Used by a Healthcare System Preparing for Healthcare Reform: Past and Present
Journal article by Valinda Rutledge, David Huber, Jan Mathews; Frontiers of Health Services Management, Vol. 27, 2010
Subjects: Business metrics, Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc-Charlotte NC, Hospitals, Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US, Quality of care, Studies, Success factors, United States
...months after implementation, GMH reduced its "door-to-thrombolytic" reperfusion time by nearly 50 percent (42 to 22 minutes...Some of the IHI recommendations were * reduction in adverse drug events with the implementation of medication reconciliation...
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magazine articles on: Thrombolytic Drug  - 50 results

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Thrombolytic Ok'd for Catheter Clots
Magazine article; Drug Topics, Vol. 145, September 17, 2001
Subjects: FDA, FDA approval, Food & Drug Administration, Genentech Inc, Prescription drugs, United States
Thrombolytic Okd for Catheter Clots The FDA has approved Genentechs thrombolytic agent Cathflo Activase (alteplase), a tissue...use vial and claims it is the only marketed thrombolytic available for this indication.
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New Data Point to Delays in Thrombolytic Delivery
Magazine article by Walter Alexander; Drug Topics, Vol. 137, January 25, 1993
Subjects: Access, Data, Hospitals, Medical, Problems, Therapy, Time, United States
New Data Point to Delays in Thrombolytic Delivery by Walter Alexander...Life-and myocardium-saving thrombolytic therapy, it appears, has not...FIRST? Patients treated with thrombolytic therapy were younger (by about...
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New Thrombolytic Offers Speedy Administration
Magazine article; Drug Topics, Vol. 144, June 19, 2000
New Thrombolytic Offers Speedy Administration The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen has urged the FDA not to approve Uprima (apomorphine HCl...
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Clot-Busting Drugs to Turn off Heart Attacks
Magazine article by Catherine Carey; FDA Consumer, Vol. 22, February 1988
Subjects: Alteplase--Physiological aspects, Coronary heart disease--Drug therapy, Fibrinolytic agents--Physiological aspects, Streptokinase--Physiological aspects, Thrombolytic drugs--Physiological aspects, Tissue plasminogen activator--Physiological aspects
...researchers have developed drugs called thrombolytic agents that can help dissolve...one of a new class of thrombolytic agents known as tissue plasminogen...the expanded use of another thrombolytic agent, streptokinase (trade...In separate trials, the drug significantly improved heart...
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When Clot-Busting Drugs Aren't Working
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, October 1993
Subjects: Blood chemical analysis, Fibrinolytic agents--Evaluation, Heart attack--Care and treatment, Thrombolytic drugs--Evaluation, blood--analysis and chemistry
When Clot-Busting Drugs Arent Working. Researchers...responding to clot-busting drugs. They reliably identify individuals...administer the clot-dissolving drugs streptokinase or t-PA, they...still being treated with a thrombolytic clot-dissolving agent to...
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newspaper articles on: Thrombolytic Drug  - 14 results

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Call for Magic Drug Cure for Stroke to Be Made Available Here
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 11, 2008
Subjects: Stroke (Disease)--Drug therapy, Stroke--Drug therapy
...are calling for the thrombolytic drug, which was developedover...patients to receive the drug made acomplete recovery...patients can avail of thrombolytic drugs in Ireland,which compares...with the use of the drug in other EU countries...
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'Super-Stroke' Units Save 400 Lives; More Patients Recover after Receiving Drug
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 19, 2010
Subjects: Stroke (Disease)--Drug therapy, Stroke patients, Stroke--Drug therapy
...Patients Recover after Receiving Drug. Byline: Kiran Randhawa...access to essential clotbusting drugs. The capital now leads the...patients would benefit from thrombolytic drugs. Figures from February to...stroke unit with access to thrombolytic drugs are much more likely...
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Majority of Welsh Heart Attack Patients Miss Life-Saver Drug Deadline
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 26, 2008
Subjects: Cardiac patients--Drug therapy
...Patients Miss Life-Saver Drug Deadline. Byline: Madeleine...England, receive clot-busting drugs within 60 minutes of calling...10 patients clot-busting drugs within half-an-hour of...Services decision to roll out thrombolytic training to its staff has been...administered the clot-busting drugs in more than 90% of eligible...
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New Drug Is Helping Save Lives
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 16, 2005
New Drug Is Helping Save Lives...of their arrival. The thrombolytic drug is now being administered...the availability to use thrombolytic treatment in the community...received pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment, compared with...
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`Paramedic Saved My Life with Heart Drug'
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 26, 2004
...half years and completed his thrombolytic drug training in February this year...could have lost his life. The drug prolongs your life and speeds...treatment." Anti-clotting drugs have been used by doctors to...administer the life-saving drug. Seven paramedics in the North...
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encyclopedia articles on: Thrombolytic Drug  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Thrombolytic Drug
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THROMBOLYTIC DRUG throm b lit ik or clot-dissolving drug, substance, such as streptokinase or tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), that causes the breakdown of blood clots (see thrombosis ) that obstruct the flow of blood through the vessels...
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Clot-Dissolving Drug
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLOT-DISSOLVING DRUG see thrombolytic drug . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Stroke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...increasing nutrients such as antioxidants and folate), drug therapy, and stress reduction techniques. Other preventive...after the stroke or when blockage is widespread. The thrombolytic drug tissue plasminogen activator, widely used to treat...


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