Purpose. The performance of a weight-based dosing protocol for unfractionated heparin (UFH) infusions using antifactor Xa monitoring was evaluated. Methods. The first 50 patients to receive a UFH ...

Heparin was the only drug accepted by all members of our trauma committee when this protocol was developed; before this time, different drugs were used with different standard doses at the discretion ...

Many patients requiring pacemaker or implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) surgery are taking warfarin. For patients at high risk for thromboembolic events, guidelines recommend bridging ...

Per-Protocol Analysis At the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2012 in Munich, we presented the results of the pre-specified per-protocol analysis of the ATOLL trial. This analysis was performed ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(5):371-374. The true success of any heparin dosing protocol would not be the amount of infusion adjustments or time to achieve a target level but rather its ability to ...