Complete dosing information for PRASUGREL HYDROCHLORIDE
Medical guidance required: Dosing information here is for educational purposes. Your healthcare provider will determine the appropriate dose based on your specific condition, kidney function, other medications, and medical history. Never adjust your dose without consulting your doctor or pharmacist.
2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION Initiate Effient treatment as a single 60 mg oral loading dose and then continue at 10 mg orally once daily. Patients taking Effient should also take aspirin (75 mg to 325 mg) daily [see Drug Interactions (7.4) and Clinical Pharmacology (12.3) ] . Effient may be administered with or without food [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3) and Clinical Studies (14) ] . Initiate treatment with a single 60 mg oral loading dose ( 2 ). Continue at 10 mg once daily with or without food. Consider 5 mg once daily for patients <60 kg ( 2 ). Patients should also take aspirin (75 mg to 325 mg) daily ( 2 ). Timing of Loading Dose In the clinical trial that established the efficacy and safety of Effient, the loading dose of Effient was not administered until coronary anatomy was established in UA/NSTEMI patients and in STEMI patients presenting more than 12 hours after symptom onset. In STEMI patients presenting within 12 hours of symptom onset, the loading dose of Effient was adm