When Carilion Roanoke (Va.) Memorial Hospital noticed a string of heparin therapy errors, the hospital implemented a pilot project that integrated improved electronic medical record documentation to ...

EXTENSIVE clinical and experimental studies have demonstrated that heparin is an effective anticoagulant. Although the drug has been injected subcutaneously and intramuscularly in different menstruums ...

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Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a clinicopathologic syndrome in which one or more clinical events, usually thrombocytopenia or thrombosis, are temporally related to heparin administration ...

Overview: Heparin is a blood thinner that is used to prevent or treat blood clots. It may be injected under the skin or into a blood vessel. The most common side effects are irritation at the ...

Heparin injectable solution only comes as a generic drug. It doesn’t have a brand-name version. Heparin comes in two forms. One is an injectable solution, which you inject under your skin. The other ...

WASHINGTON, DC—For STEMI patients undergoing PCI, pretreatment with a loading dose of unfractionated heparin at first medical contact improves spontaneous reperfusion of the infarct-related artery ...

Although UFH has been the mainstay therapy for extracorporeal anticoagulation for many decades, low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) have now replaced UFH as the anticoagulant of choice in many ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – According to a new study, administering the blood thinner bivalirudin to patients experiencing an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI, the most serious form of a heart attack ...

If biomolecules were people, heparin would be a celebrity. Best known as a powerful blood thinner with a global market of more than $7 billion, heparin is used during and after surgery and is ...