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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2016 Jul 16;64(6):1770–1779.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2016.05.046

Table VI.

Medications

Medications Facility level
PHC First-level Referral Tertiary
Aspirin E E E E
Unfractionated heparin I E E E
Low-molecular weight heparin I E E E
Protamine I E E E
Benzopyrones (e.g. coumarin) I I D E
Warfarin I D E E
Vitamin K I E E E
Statin D E E E
Ivermectin E E E E

PHC – primary health center; outpatient clinics, staffed by non-physicians; First-level hospital – typically staffed by general practitioners, may or may not provide surgical services; Referral hospital – typically staffed by specialists, usually including a general surgeon; Tertiary hospital – offer a wider range of specialists, and laboratory and imaging capabilities; Resource designation at a particular level: E – essential; D – desirable; I – irrelevant (i.e. resource not considered to be available at the particular level even with full resource availability);

*

Essential when the local epidemiology warrants.