APIXABAN vs RIVAROXABAN

**🛎️ DING 🛎️ DING 🛎️ DING** Clinicians… **Are.**  **You.**  **Ready?** For a fight messier than ward politics… For a battle bloodier than supratherapeutic INR… For a tussle rougher than back-to-back night shifts… For the very first time, two clot-stopping heavyweights step into the ring. 

Okay, so picture this: you’re the stroke consultant. You have a patient with recurrent ischaemic stroke. You’ve *already* covered them with clopidogrel. What more can you do 🤔? Your apixaban is collecting dust because the patient doesn’t have AF.  So the PA asks “Hey, what if we gave this patient a

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Time to quiz you little nerds … who can tell me how long we treat a ***provoked*** VTE for? …Anyone?? To the trained *Passmed* monkeys who blurted “3 months!”, well done. Have a cookie 🍪 But just pause that Pavlovian hand-raise for a sec. **Why** ***three*** **months?** Why not two? or four? http

**Background:** Hi everyone! I’m a foreign pharmacy graduate from the Philippines who graduated in 2020 and moved to the US in 2021. From there I started working as a full-time hospital pharmacy technician, passed the FPGEE in 2022, completed internship hours in 2023, and recently passed the NAPLEX

Okay, so picture this: you’re the stroke consultant. You have a patient with recurrent ischaemic stroke. You’ve *already* covered them with clopidogrel. What more can you do 🤔? Your apixaban is collecting dust because the patient doesn’t have AF.  So the PA asks “Hey, what if we gave this patient a

UPDATE: I PASSED 😭😭😭😭 I took the test yesterday, and honestly, it felt pretty random. It was confusing rather than difficult. Some of the tables were hard to read or figure out. There were also a few weird management questions with vague answer choices.Time was really tight — I’d definitely reco

Saw that someone was requesting some useful trials to know for IM and thought I'd post this little summary I made a while back. Didn't post it because I didn't think it was fully ready and I was hoping to make a video on it but it seems like now would be a good timing. Hopefully it's useful to some

Last fall when the SPRINT results came in, I thought it seemed strange for a major trial to find something unexpected on a question that has been so thoroughly investigated previously. Now, it turns out, there was a reason for it - an unconventional means of measuring blood pressure, and one that w

Hello everyone! I passed NCLEX in 85 questions around a week ago and then I just rested almost the whole week. I didn't realized how exhausted I was until I was done with the test, but I feel amazing now! I want to share with you guys what I studied for around a month up until the day I took the tes

*How it works and what targets* The Promise of Factor XI Hiding in Plain Sight: Factor XI as a Potentially Attractive Therapeutic Target It has long been believed that reducing thrombosis (harmful blood clotting) and hemostasis (healthy blood clotting) are so closely connected that reducing clots w

Patient hgb 5.9 RBC 2.92 ( he got 2 units of blood) now Hgb 8 RBC 3.4 Based on Padua Score (5points) I should give DVT prophylaxis? altho we stopped Rivaroxaban and aspirin due to anemia.. should I re-initiate or risk vs benefit ?