The constantly workload increase has led to the development of Computerised Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for a better management of patient care. Many clinical situations have been investigated to verify the utility of CDSS: few have demonstrated stable effects. One area where success has been reported is the field of oral anticoagulation management. CDSS system has demonstrated to be able t...

Experience with long-term anticoagulant therapy during the past seven years has been sumnmarized. This report is based on the records of 227 individuals treated as private or outpatient clinic patients for from four weeks to seven years. Where adequate laboratory facilities are available outpatient long-term therapy may be satisfactorily controlled by physicians familiar with the use of anticoa...

Experience with long-term anticoagulant therapy during the past seven years has been sumnmarized. This report is based on the records of 227 individuals treated as private or outpatient clinic patients for from four weeks to seven years. Where adequate laboratory facilities are available outpatient long-term therapy may be satisfactorily controlled by physicians familiar with the use of anticoa...

these episodes 16 were serious. Hazard et al (1967) reported ten cases of intracranial haemorrhage during a two and a half year pertiod. iSeventy-six haemorrhagic episodes were reported duning the treatment of 507 patients during a five year period (Serradiim'igni, 1969) while Straub (1970) recorded 13 deaths from haemorrhage in 70 patients treated with anticoagulant therapy. Bleeding was detec...

Fourteen patients were treated with anticoagulants during 15 pregnancies. Eleven had venous thrombosis, three with pulmonary embolism; three had prosthetic heart valves; and one had mitral stenosis with pulmonary hypertension. AU 15 were treated with heparin and 10 with warfarin. The mean duration of heparin therapy was 4-5 weeks and of warfarin 14 weeks. There were two minor episodes of recurr...

2001;119;22S-38S Chest Leon Poller, Alan Jacobson, Daniel Deykin and David Matchar Jack Ansell, Jack Hirsh, James Dalen, Henry Bussey, David Anderson, Managing Oral Anticoagulant Therapy l.html http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/119/1_suppl/22S.ful and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ISSN:0012-3692 ...

Thromboembolic episodes are disorders encountered in both children and adults, but relatively more common in adults. However, the occurrence of venous thromboembolism and use of anticoagulants in pediatrics are increasing. Unfractionated Heparin (UH) is used as a treatment and prevention of thrombosis in adults and critically ill children. Heparin utilization in pediatric is limited by many fac...