Product Description:

• LIBSA contains the active substance rivaroxaban and is used in adults to:


• prevent blood clots in the veins after a hip or knee replacement operation. Your doctor has prescribed this medicine for you because after an operation you are at an increased risk of getting blood clots.


• treat blood clots in the veins of your legs (deep vein thrombosis) and in the blood vessels of your lungs (pulmonary embolism), and to prevent blood clots from re-occurring in the blood vessels of your legs and/or lungs.


• LIBSA belongs to a group of medicines called antithrombotic agents. It works by blocking a blood clotting factor (factor Xa) and thus reducing the tendency of the blood to form clots.

How to use:

• Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.

How much to take

• To prevent blood clots in the veins after a hip or knee replacement operation


• The recommended dose is one tablet LIBSA 10 mg once a day.


• To treat blood clots in the veins of your legs and blood clots in the blood vessels of your lungs, and for preventing blood clots from re-occurring


• After at least 6 months’ blood clot treatment, the recommended dose is either one 10 mg tablet once a day or one 20 mg tablet once a day. Your doctor has prescribed you LIBSA 10 mg once a day.


• Swallow the tablet preferably with water.


• LIBSA can be taken with or without food.


• If you have difficulty swallowing the tablet whole, talk to your doctor about other ways to take LIBSA. The tablet may be crushed and mixed with water or apple puree immediately before you take it.


• If necessary, your doctor may also give you the crushed LIBSA tablet through a stomach tube.

When to take LIBSA

• Take the tablet every day until your doctor tells you to stop.


• Try to take the tablet at the same time every day to help you to remember it.


• Your doctor will decide how long you must continue treatment.


• To prevent blood clots in the veins after a hip or knee replacement operation:


• Take the first tablet 6 - 10 hours after your operation.


• If you have had a major hip operation you will usually take the tablets for 5 weeks.


• If you have had a major knee operation you will usually take the tablets for 2 weeks.

Ingredients:

• The active substance is rivaroxaban.


• Each tablet contains 10 mg of rivaroxaban.