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 ...
This webinar will look at the principles of the assays available to monitor heparin. The most frequent assay that is used is the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT). This assay is readily ...
A total of 172 patients were screened to obtain 50 patients in the analysis for each group. The most prevalent reasons for exclusion included heparin infusion for less than 24 hours and inadequate ...
Ever since the introduction of the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), such as apixaban and rivaroxaban, laboratory staff and clinicians have been confronted with unique challenges in determining ...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is common in patients with cancer. Long-term daily subcutaneous low molecular weight heparin has been standard treatment for such patients. The purpose of this study was ...
Baebies Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for First Point-of-Care Heparin Monitoring Test
DURHAM, N.C., April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baebies has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Anti-Factor Xa test on the FINDER® platform ...
Heparin (ball and stick structure) activates antithrombin-III (gray) to bind to and inhibit thrombin (purple). All this raises the questions: Just what is heparin? Where does it come from? What does ...
Bleeding in low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) overdose is unpredictable and may develop insidiously in deep tissues such as retroperitoneal and intramuscular spaces. Protamine sulfate partially ...
A new study has shown that COVID-19 patients admitted to the Intensive care unit may be resistant to the naturally occurring anticoagulant Heparin. The study titled, “Heparin resistance in COVID‑19 ...
Therapeutic-dose heparin appears to benefit noncritically-ill COVID-19 patients, but it does not reduce deaths or other adverse endpoints compared with usual-care thromboprophylaxis if it’s initiated ...
We evaluated two patients in whom heparin-induced thrombocytopenia developed after orthopedic surgery, with the delayed-onset type in Patient 1 and the spontaneous type in Patient 2 (Figure 1). The ...
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