Reversal Method: A Xarelto's Pitfall as an Anticoagulant
With over $ 1 billion in the sales, Xarelto's popularity over the public is undeniably amazing. The company behind this medicine (Bayer) has wonderful success on the early days, but those days are yet to end because of one important factor.
Being an anticoagulant, Xarelto is used to reduce the number of blood clots. Patients with Atrial Fibrillation, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism can have the benefits of using this medicine for their condition. As the marketing strategy, the manufacturer and distributor didn't include the side effects of its intake. Do you know what side effect is it? It is Xarelto's ability to incur uncontrollable bleeding. With consumers lacking the knowledge of its effects, they instantly believed in the advantages it can do to them.
No monitoring. That is one big statement that Xarelto used to get a mass number of customers. Who would not simply get caught with that statement? I think most will doubt it at first but having been approved by FDA, the guarantee is tied to a knot. As they say, there is no secret that is kept hidden for a long time.
The outbreak of patients who have experienced internal and gastrointestinal bleeding started and the truth about Xarelto's lack of a reversal method for uncontrollable bleeding is exposed. Most of us are familiar with bleeding as side effects of anticoagulants, but there is an anticoagulant with a reversal method. Warfarin, an anticoagulant who have been in the market since 1950's is a way better blood thinner because once you have uncontrollable bleeding, the administration of Vitamin K eases the bleeding.
Due to this incident, plaintiffs have increased as the issue spreads all over the states. The blame points out to the manufacturer and distributor of Xarelto. It is an inhuman act not to inform the risks of a drug just to gain sales over other medicines in the market. This puts Xarelto bleeding lawsuit to be a high case as of today.
In a personal view, it's remarkably unhealthy to brought out a product that don't have an exit strategy when an unexpected situation happens. It's terrifying to know that even clinical studies have been done to prove its efficiency, the results are still questionable until it is put to a test. On the other hand, manufacturers should be more accurate and precise whether their product is really 100% proven effective and safe. The financial gain of the company is worthless if there will be claims against the credibility of their product.
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