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Blood Clot Prevention: Injection. Your doctor has prescribed shots (injectable medicine) to prevent or treat blood clots. This medicine is an anticoagulant (an-tihko-AG-you-lent). Sometimes it is referred to as a blood thinner. Along with the anticoagulant medicine, your doctor may prescribe other methods to prevent blood clots.
1. Safety Needles, 22g or less 2. Butterfly needles. 21g or less 3. Syringes 4. Blood Collection Tubes. The vacuum tubes are designed to draw a predetermined volume of blood. Tubes with different additives are used for collecting blood specimens for specific types of tests. The color of the rubber stopper is used to identify these additives.