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All right, now I want to cover heparin-type products. So heparin and anoxaparin, these are the two

main medications that I'm going to teach you about. Inoxapin, I would say in my experience, I see this used much more frequently than

heparin, but heparin you will see used periodically as well.

These are considered blood-thinning, anti-coagulant type medications.

The big difference between like DOACs and warfarin and

heparin is anoxyparin and heparin is.

Anoxyparin and heparin are injectable type medications.

So an oxyparin brand name Lovenox, mechanistically, it works in that clotting cascade primarily inhibits factor 10A, but also has some

blockade of thromb, and that would be factor 2A.

So by blocking those factors, those clotting factors, we're going to thin the blood out.

The big downside, you know, on a chronic basis, if you will, this medication would have to be given as an injection on a chronic basis.

So that's why you really don't see it out in ambulatory care and out in practice.

It can be used for DVT, DVT prophylaxis, both as well as treatment,

higher dosages for treatment, which is pretty much true with just about any anticoagulant

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