Word: dicumarol
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...several days coronary patients may be kept in an oxygen tent in an effort to reduce strain on the heart and avoid possible complications in the lungs. They also get Dicumarol or a similar anticoagulant which reduces the danger of extension of the thrombus and formation of circulation-blocking clots...
...bedside blood test that any family doctor can perform in a couple of minutes has been devised by George Washington University researchers for victims of certain kinds of heart and artery diseases. Hitherto, treatment with anticlotting drugs like Dicumarol and Tromexan meant that patients had to go to a hospital every day; the simplified test means that the drugs can be used more conveniently for more cases...
Thrombosis, the specialists reported last week, is no longer so dreaded. In the past two years investigators have had notable results with two anti-clotting drugs: heparin and dicumarol. Heparin is a substance in the liver and lungs first isolated in 1916; dicumarol is found in spoiled sweet clover (its anti-clotting property was first discovered when it was found that cattle feeding on it sometimes bled to death). Both drugs prevent clots from forming...
Heparin acts within a few minutes, but it is expensive and has to be injected every few hours. Dicumarol is cheap and easy to take (in pills), but it takes 24 hours to work. Doctors combine them: heparin for the emergency, dicumarol for longer-range effects...
...patient taking Dicumarol need not fear that he will bleed to death. Dr. Link explained that it can be counteracted by 1) a small transfusion, 2) a large dose (an injection) of vitamin K, the antihemorrhagic vitamin in leafy vegetables...