Country America
Anticoagulation in the local language Anticoagulation
Argentina Australia Austria
Gerinnungshemmer
Belgium
Antistollingsbehandeling Anticoagulation
Canada
Warfarin or similar drug Warfarin/ Coumadin/ Jantoven/ Miradon Circuint/ Coumader Warfarin/ Marevan Marcoumar/ Sintrom
Coumadin®Warfarin, Sintrim®Nicoumalone
Costa Rica
Crete
Cyprus Denmark Ecuador Eire Finland France
Varfarin
Varfarin AK-behandling Anticoagulation Anticoagulanttihoitonsa Traitement anticoagulant oral
Warfarin Warfarin Fluindione/ Acenocoumarol
Where to go or ask about INRs Make an appointment with a doctor who will refer you for an INR Alice Springs Hospital, Gap Road, Alice Springs, NT0870 08 8951 7777 Private laboratory/ GP (Allgemeine Arzt), Ambulanz department or central laboratory of many hospitals** Hospital/ doctor/ Roche +32 2 247 48 38 Make an appointment with a doctor who will refer you for an INR
Laboratories or hospitals. Facilities exist throughout the country. Most towns have Micro-Labs or Private Clinics which can be identified with a red cross. The INR can be obtained usually for a maximum price of 15 Euro. Most Hotel receptions will help clients look for a Micro Lab or give information as to where there is one of those clinics with the red cross. Private or general hospitals Hospital (sygehus) Laboratories in the major cities – Guayaquil, Quito and Cuenca. GP/ hospital GP/ Hospital Central ‘laboratoire analyse’ in all towns, ask for ‘analyse INR’* if not district nurse, doctor or pharmacy, private or hospital lab.
In Paris, there was laboratory right around the corner. It cost 14.58euro. No waiting and the results were picked up in the afternoon. Germany
Gerinnungshemmer
Marcumar/
Local hospital – INR result should
Greece Holland
Iceland Italy
Antistollingsbehandeling
Terapia anticoagulante orale
Indonesia Japan
Warfarin AcencoumaroleSintrom®/ Warfarin Comadin®
Simarc-2 Warfarin/ Coumadin Warfarin
New Zealand
Norway
Phenoprocoumon/ Coumadin Varfarin Phenprocoumon/ Acenocoumarol
antikoagulasjonsbehandling
Panama
Portugal
Russia
Anticoagulação, terapeutica anticoagulente oral
Varfine
Warfarin/ Nafarin
be available the same day. Cost is less than Euro20 Private laboratory or hospital Go to a GP They cannot advise on correct Warfarin dose, you will have to phone your clinic or doctor GP/Hospital Centro di Sorveglianza dell’Anticoagualto, hospital or doctor
In Rome go to a Pharmacy and they will direct you to the laboratory. They were very friendly and accommodating. It cost 22euro. No waiting and the results were emailed a few hours later. Not at Japanese equivalent of G.P. Find a drop in clinic, there is a chain called Labtest. The result is phoned through later in the day. The clinics do not take cash only credit/debit cards. Cost in 2013 was 21 NZ dollars, approximately £11.00. Private medical centre or clinic, outpatients department of a public hospital (legevakt) Major hospitals have their own laboratories and there are independent companies. Try Hospital Punta Pacifica Panama or Raly Laboratorios for more information. Health clinic/laboratory. We can recommend Laboratorio Chagas,Lad.Large Dr.Bernard Lopez, 20-20-1o 8100 LouleTelephone. 289 463 608.You can ring them for a test and also result in the afternoon.The charge to date is 4,50 euros, better than waiting a long time if you have it done on the system. They give you a print out of results, but you need to adjust dose yourself if necessary, so take your card for reference.
Singapore
Warfarin
South Africa
Spain/ Balearic Islands
anticoagulation
Sweden Switzerland Thailand
Aldocumar/ Sintrom/Syntrom
Singapore General Hospital Outram Road, Singapore 169608 Tel: 6222 3322 Fax:6224 9221 Phone to see whether they will do visitors INR Knysna Private Hospital, 20 Jonker Street,0443841044 (about 500 km east of Cape Town) at the end of the Garden Route every weekday morning. The result is usually available after approx 30 minutes. The Pathcare cost is about ZA 75 which is less than £5.00 Somerset West or Constantia Main Hospital referred to as Medi- Clinic. No appointment necessary. Waiting time never more than 2 minutes with results available 2-3hours later. It costs less than £5.00 Private Hospital/ Clinic/ Health Centre
Warfarin Gerinnungshemmer
Cumarine Befarin/ Maforan/ Fargem
Doctor specializing in ‘Innere(internal)/ Allgemeine(general) Medizin’ BNH, 9/1 Convent Road, Silom, Bangkok 10500, +662 686 2700 Used many times and when I needed to see a haematologist they made an instant appointment, very cheap Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital 133 Sukhumvit 49, Klongtan Nua, Vadhana,Bangkok , +66 (0) 2711 8000 Cost about £40 as you have to see a doctor Chiang Mai Ram Hospital 053 920300 www.chiangmairam.com turn up, register, wait – efficiently seen, phone an hour later for the result Overbrooks Hospital, RAi Singhakhlai Road, Muang,Chang Rai 57000, 053 711366 Turn up, run by nuns as a public hospital for charity, very cheap
but little spoken English – wave your yellow book
Tunisia
Warfarin?
Turkey
Orfarin/ Warfarin
Venezuela
Anasmol/ Cumar
GP surgery, ask rep. to find English speaking doctor Anticoagulation and/ or Thrombosis Clinic
*No appointment is needed. A fee of Euro 11 is charged. You will be given a note with the test number, which you present for the print out of the result in about 4 hours. If you don’t speak French it would be a good idea to prepare a document for them stating your ‘nom’ (surname), ‘prenom’ (Christian name), ‘addresse’, and ‘naissance’ (date of birth). **Try and call the laboratory first to see whether they use the same testing method you are used to, i.e. Coaguchek as opposed to venous testing. If you look on the homepage www.roche.at you should be able to find information about which doctors use Coagucheks.