Unfractionated heparin
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General
- Type:
- Dosage Forms:
- Common Trade Names:
Adult Dosing
Pediatric Dosing
Special Populations
- Pregnancy Rating: Safe in pregnancy
- Lactation:
- Renal Dosing
- Adult
- Pediatric
- Hepatic Dosing
- Adult
- Pediatric
Contraindications
- Allergy to class/drug
- 33% of pts develop some form of bleeding complication; 2-6% develop major bleeding
- Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
- See HIT (Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia)
Risk Factors for Major Bleeding Complication
- Recent surgery or trauma
- Renal failure
- Alcoholism
- Malignancy
- Liver failure
- Concurrent use of warfarin, fibrinolytics, steroids, or antiplatelet drugs
Pharmacology
- Half-life:
- Metabolism:
- Excretion:
- Mechanism of Action:
- Binds to and activates antithrombin which in turns inactivates factor Xa and thrombin
- Anticoagulation effect lasts up to 3hr after stopping infusion
- Must give IV (not subq) for acute thromboembolic disease
- Unpredictable anticoagulation effect
- Must monitor w/ PTT; therapeutic range is 1.5-2.5x normal value