Volume 4, Number 4, July-August 2007

Blood Clotting: How do Drugs Affect it?
David Fitzmaurice, Ellen Murray

Haemostasis is essentially the fine balance between activators and inhibitors that control the production of the protein tangle that makes up a blood clot. A range of drugs can interfere with this fine balance. In this article we guide you through the latest theories of how blood clotting occurs and explain how various drugs used as anticoagulants interfere with this normal haemostatic mechanism.

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