Evaluation of the use and efficacy of heparin nomograms in a university-teaching hospital in North Carolina [Abstract]

Salek, Mir-saeed, Sanghvi, S., Rodgers, J. and Montague, D. 2010. Evaluation of the use and efficacy of heparin nomograms in a university-teaching hospital in North Carolina [Abstract]. Pharmacy World and Science 32 (2) , p. 263. 10.1007/s11096-010-9378-9

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Abstract

Background and objective Accurate dosing of unfractionated heparin (UFH) is difficult to achieve due to inter-patient variability in anticoagulant response, high rate of medication errors with UFH and problems in monitoring heparin via activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) levels. Although weight-based nomograms have marked an improvement, they have by no means eliminated limitations associated with UFH therapy. Study aims were to assess whether current dosing nomogram at UNC Hospitals was being used accurately by healthcare staff, and whether doses within the nomogram were achieving therapeutic anticoagulation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Pharmacy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Additional Information:	ESCP–GSASA 38th symposium on clinical pharmacy 30 years of clinical pharmacy; a bright future ahead, 3rd–6th November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0928-1231
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2022 11:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32848

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