Chapter 64- Coagulation Disorders

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IMPORTANT NOTE – PLEASE READ FIRST: This continuing education assessment requires that you first purchase the text book: Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice. Please go to our home page: http://www.rxugace.com/ and click on “Books” for more information Prior To Registering for this assessment.

Upon completion of the corresponding textbook chapter in Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice and this on-line assessment, the reader should be able to:

1. Describe the basics of the regulation of hemostasis and thrombosis.
2. Determine which factor-replacement preparation is appropriate in a given clinical scenario.
3. Calculate an appropriate factor-concentrate dose for a product, given the percentage correction desired.
4. List the complications from hemophilia bleeding episodes.
5. Devise a treatment plan for a patient with a specific variant of von Willebrand’s disease.
6. Identify which laboratory tests may aid in the diagnosis of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
7. Recommend treatment approach for the initial treatment of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).
8. Identify basic clinical features of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).
9. List etiologies for neonatal vitamin K deficiency.

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