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[croumagnon]

Re: The Clotting Cascade

Even this simplified version seems quite complicated for many of us. For instance, I always thought that Prothrombin times were viewed as the main indicators for clotting efficiency but clearly your diagram shows that things are a lot more complicated than that...

It would be helpful for some of us who are not well versed in this field if you could identify the places where the various agents work in this cascade, such as Plavix (if it can have a role in this cascade whatsoever), Aspirin, ATryn, Coumadin, and heparin...

TIA