CURRENT USAGE OF ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS IN INDIA AN OVERVIEW

Vitamin K antagonists as warfarin, acenocoumarol, etc., are actually the most often prescribed medicines for dealing with blood coagulation in individuals with AF, rheumatic valvular disease, heart valve replacement (HVR), pulmonary embolism, DVT, and after orthopaedic surgery. Warfarin is quite popularly recommended in the US whereas in India acenocoumarol is actually the drug of choice. A report implies that in North India acenocoumarol is popular rather than warfarin. Lately, with the arrival of new OACs a lot of issues have risen as to will the brand new agents change the older OACs and are they a lot more successful compared to the earlier OACs. The application of new agents in India is actually reduced because of to greater price, poor compliance, minimal monitoring facilities, no specific antidote accessible, and severe bleeding in renal affected individuals and elderly > eighty years.In this paper, we shall understand with available sources the advantages/disadvantages and conditions of usage of oral anticoagulants in India.