Anticoagulant Therapy Booklet

Are you taking anticoagulant medication?
Or maybe someone around is?

The patient treated by anticoagulant therapy must be well informed about his or her condition and the role of the medication. The About Health booklet on the subject and its charts are essential tools for your information.

The following is an excerpt from the booklet:

What are anticoagulants?
Anticoagulants are medicines designed to thin your blood. In fact, they are used to treat and prevent clots from forming, i.e. coagulation, and blocking your blood vessels. This blockage is referred to as thromboembolism. A person is severely in danger when a clot blocks an important vessel in the brain, heart, or lungs.

Coagulation is essential. Among other tasks, it allows gashes to stop bleeding. It’s a normal mechanism. However, it becomes problematic when clots start forming inside blood vessels.

This brochure is available in participating PROXIM branches. While supplies last.