Monitoring Unfractionated Heparin drips

PLEASE NOTE:   Posts made to this forum should not be considered as the expressed opinions of, nor should be considered endorsed by, the Medication Safety Officer’s Society (MSOS) or the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). 

Make sure your email is up-to-date
In order to continue to receive updates from MSOS, as well as forum posts and other valuable information as a member of MSOS, please be sure to update your email address with us, whenever it changes. If you need assistance doing so, please send an email to jrufo@ismp.org. 

4 posts / 0 new
Log in or register to post comments
Last post
Thu, 03/25/2021 - 21:17
#1
Mary Sadler
Mary Sadler's picture
Offline
Last seen: 3 days 13 hours ago
Joined: 04/23/2020 - 16:53
Monitoring Unfractionated Heparin drips

Hello everyone!
For monitoring of heparin drips, does your facility have standardized times for the lab draws or are they timed after the last result was posted?
For example, UFH level taken at 6am, resulted at 7am, RN saw and adjusted at 7:30 am--would you adjust next q6h level to 1:30 pm or leave it at 12pm? Or do you do q8 hours knowing you will have lags with the posting and adjustments?
Thank you!

Top