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April 2006 Crossword Puzzle
Saturday, April 1, 2006
PTINR.com Staff
April brings with it warmer weather and one of our more challenging puzzles.
Across
5 April 1
7 Spring time finds many clocks moving this one hour
8 _____ is a virtue
9 Butter, salted is ranked this using the vitamin K registry
13 Name for medications that don't get along
14 A type of dose no longer used commonly to start warfarin (Coumadin ®)
19 Preferred site for blood draw for many
21 Food used as the icon for the Vitamin K registry
23 Most changes to dosing done this way
25 Number of studies in the "Weekly Testing Supported by Evidence" patient article
26 Rail, air, cruise are forms
27 Warfarin prevents dangerous ____
28 Determined the most effective interval of testing by Medicare
29 True or false - home testing is a replacement for visiting the doctor
Down
1 Checking the status of an INR
2 Quality Assured Services abbreviation
3 Percent of patients in range referenced for monthly testing - found in patient article: "Self-testing results are in".
4 The generic name for Coumadin
6 Fresh water green algae (formal name)
8 When in doubt about your warfarin, pick this up and call your doctor's office
10 Daily light savings time abbreviation
11 This governing body approved INR monitors for home use
12 An INR result of 6.5 is considered ____
15 QAS handles all the paper work with this carrier, Medicare is one
16 International Normalized Ratio abbreviation
17 PTINR.com offers a seasonal version available through your professional
18 Unit of measure for vitamin K
20 Proof
22 q.d. dosing
24 High vitamin K diets will ____ a patient's INR