Warfarin is used to prevent or treat blood clots, including deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. It is also used for blood clots that may be caused by certain heart conditions, open-heart surgery, or after a heart attack.
What is the drug used for?
Warfarin (brand names and ) is a prescription medication used to prevent harmful blood clots from forming or growing larger. Beneficial blood clots prevent or stop bleeding, but harmful blood clots can cause a stroke, heart attack, deep vein thrombosis, or pulmonary embolism.
What is the brand name for warfarin 5mg?
You may know warfarin by its brand names, and . Warfarin slows down how quickly your blood clots.
What are the doses of tablets?
Dosage and strength The usual warfarin dose for adults is 10mg a day for the first 2 days, then between 3mg and 9mg a day after that. The usual warfarin dose for children depends on how much they weigh. Warfarin tablets come in 4 different strengths.
What is a 5mg pill?
This medication is used to treat blood clots (such as in deep vein thrombosis-DVT or pulmonary embolus-PE) and/or to prevent new clots from forming in your body. Preventing harmful blood clots helps to reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack.
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of . Move across that row to see the individual dose for each day of the week. (For example, if you are using the 1 mg tablet and your total weekly dose is 4.5 mg, you would take 1 whole tablet Sunday and Thursday, and (half) tablet the other days of the week.)
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