Pharmacology - ANTICOAGULANTS & ANTIPLATELET DRUGS (MADE EASY)

👉📝WANT STUDY NOTES FOR THIS PRESENTATION? 👉Join Patreon at Anticoagulants, commonly referred to as blood thinners, are drugs that prevent or reduce coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time. Antiplatelet drugs, also known as a platelet aggregation inhibitors, decrease platelet aggregation and inhibit clot formation. These drugs play an important role in the treatment of various disorders such as myocardial infarction, thrombotic stroke and venous thromboembolism. This pharmacology lecture covers topics such as pathophysiology of blood clot formation and platelet function; activation, aggregation, cross-linking; ADP receptors, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptors, cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) enzyme, fibrinogen, fibrin mesh, coagulation cascade; intrinsic & extrinsic pathways, clotting factors, antithrombin, heparin induced thrombocytopenia, INR, plasmin, and plasminogen; mechanism of action of platelet inhibitors, anticoagulants, t