Important information for anticoagulation clinic patients
Your first visit to the anticoagulation clinic will be 40 to 60 minutes in length and may be in a group setting with other “new to clinic” patients. Please bring your updated medication list to this appointment.
Your appointments thereafter will be approximately 15 to 30 minutes.
What we do:
- Help you get started as a new patient, providing in-depth education.
- Understand your health history, current medications and diet.
- Assist you in understanding anticoagulation therapy and your individual treatment plan.
- Provide nutrition and lifestyle recommendations.
- Perform International Normalized Ratio (INR) lab monitoring, via point-of-care (“finger-stick”) or blood draw, and adjust your warfarin dose as needed, based on the results.
- Discuss changes in diet, acute illnesses, and medications that could impact your therapy.
- Manage anticoagulation prescription refills to your preferred pharmacy.
- Coordinate anticoagulation therapy before and after surgeries and procedures.
- Provide after-hours care with an on-call nurse available in the evenings, on weekends and holidays.
When to call the anticoagulation clinic
Salem: 503-814-1700
Dallas: 503-917-2013
Feel free to call if you have any questions about your warfarin therapy. We are here to help! Please call us for any of the issues below:
Medication issues
- You miss a dose of warfarin, or take too much
- Medication changes (starting, stopping or changing) to over-the-counter, prescribed (especially antibiotics and steroids) and vitamin supplements.
- Changes in the amount of vitamin K in your diet.
- Your warfarin tablet appears to be a different color when being refilled.
- You are pregnant or are planning to get pregnant.
Health changes
- Bleeding (go to the emergency room or call 911 if uncontrollable).
- Any procedures coming up, including dental work.
- Any illness lasting longer than three days.
- More bruising than usual from trauma.
Provider changes
- A health care provider tells you to stop warfarin.
- You are receiving/plan to receive home health services for any reason (including physical therapy, occupational therapy or nursing services).
- You were admitted to a hospital or evaluated at an emergency department since you last visited the anticoagulation clinic.