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Antiplatelets & Thrombolytics

An arterial clot is built in four steps — and every drug in this section interrupts exactly one of them. Step through the artery, then tap a drug to see where it cuts in, and what that means at the bedside.

A coronary artery

plateletred cell exposed collagenfibrin drug block
Building a clotstep through it, then add a drug
Platelet plug—
Fibrin mesh—
Blood flow—
Antiplatelets — stop a clot from being built
Thrombolytics — destroy a clot already built