Medicine pack check sheet

Source-linked reading points

• Check EFFIENT, prasugrel, 5 mg or 10 mg, NDC, the 30-tablet bottle and target market together. mg is a labelled per-tablet amount, not a web rule for tablets per day, adding strengths, alternating them or replacing one pack with another.
• Both 5 mg and 10 mg tablets in this label are unscored, and the label says not to break EFFIENT tablets. This product-specific wording does not automatically extend to another prasugrel product, market or oral tablet; swallowing, splitting or switching questions need pharmacist or prescriber review for the actual product.
• The label has a serious-bleeding warning and identifies history of stroke/TIA, age, weight, prior bleeding, surgery or dental work and other medicines as information that needs a team with the complete history and medicine list. It is not a checklist for a webpage to decide whether anyone should continue, pause, make up or switch.
• With significant or unexplained bleeding, black stools, vomiting/coughing blood, head injury, sudden chest pain, breathing trouble or neurological symptoms, use local urgent and medical pathways; do not infer continuation, pause or make-up use from this page.