The Post-Graduate Education Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology has prepared this slide set. This slide set is designed to aid the healthcare professional in presenting a lecture to a medical/scientific audience. There are 48 slides, covering topics of:

• Review of clotting and clotting factors
• Mechanisms of action of warfarin
• Usage of warfarin, with special considerations for the elderly
• Prothrombin time and INR and how to interpret them
• Warfarin -- dosing information, target INRs, monitoring, contraindications
• Managing patients with high INR values
• Drug interactions with warfarin

Notes that serve as talking points accompany several of the slides. The slides, which are in PowerPoint, cannot be viewed without downloading them.  Here are four example slides:

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