CHICAGO, IL — A small, single-center analysis suggests that it may be time to increase the recommended maximum, weight-based unfractionated-heparin bolus and infusion doses for patients with ACS so as ...

In 1988, Wheeler et al. [8] reported that physicians treating patients for pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis frequently underdosed their patients and were slow to change their heparin ...

Baxter Healthcare Corporation is providing an update to its January 2008 heparin sodium injection 1000 units/mL 10 and 30mL multi-dose vial voluntary recall of nine lots, which the company initiated ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Baxter International Inc on Monday said it has temporarily stopped making the blood-thinner heparin in multi-dose vials after four patients who took the drug died and hundreds of ...

The heparin frequently given before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) should be pushed to as early as possible in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to ...

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 ...

Early Heparin Administration in STEMI: Revisiting an Old Question in the Modern PCI Era The optimal timing of anticoagulation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) ...