The HNS subsystem is designed to improve the safety, accuracy, and efficiency of heparin given by continuous i.v. infusion through the standardization of prescribing, dosing (including calculations), ...

THE chief obstacles to the wide-scale use of heparin in the treatment of venous thromboembolic disease, are two: the expense of the available commercial heparin preparations and the transiency of ...

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 ...

FDA warns that the new-and-improved heparin will take some getting used to. The blood thinner has been reformulated to help manufacturers detect any impurities, theoretically making it safer. But in ...

Researchers moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is a potent anti-coagulant and the most prescribed drug in hospitals, yet cell-culture-based production of ...