heparin Definition
☆ hepa·rin (hep′ə rin)
heparin Usage Examples
Converse of object
- receive: Heparin Approximately 2/3 of the patients received prophylactic low dose heparin during the course of study.
- give: Or you can be given heparin continuously into a vein through a pump.
- call: However if you suffer from stomach ulceration or allergy to aspirin then there is a shot of a blood thinning agent called heparin available.
Preposition: in
treatment: Low molecular weight heparin in the treatment of venous thromboembolism: an updated meta-analysis.
Adjective modifier
- unfractionated: A comparison of low-molecular weight heparin with unfractionated heparin for unstable coronary disease.
- low-molecular: A comparison of low-molecular weight heparin with unfractionated heparin for unstable coronary disease.
- low-molecular-weight: Efficacy and cost of low-molecular-weight heparin compared with standard heparin for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis after total hip arthroplasty.
- subcutaneous: Adjusted subcutaneous heparin versus warfarin sodium in the long-term treatment of venous thrombosis.
- intravenous: The decision to administer intravenous heparin once the INR falls below the therapeutic level should be individualized.
- prophylactic: Heparin Approximately 2/3 of the patients received prophylactic low dose heparin during the course of study.
Modifies a noun
- saline: Be very quick to close the common femoral clamp to minimize blood loss and loss of heparin saline.
- contamination: If a Thrombin Time test is normal then there is not significant heparin contamination in the blood sample.
- injection: For those women with previous thrombosis we use aspirin together with subcutaneous heparin injections.
- dose: There may be a need to increase your heparin dose during dialysis.
- therapy: However when combined with a form of heparin therapy central nervous blockade should not be performed.
- treatment: Unlike warfarin, there are no blood tests usually required to monitor heparin treatment.
Noun used with modifier
- lithium: Blood Chromosome Analysis This is performed on a 5-10ml fresh, sterile sample of venous blood in a lithium heparin container.
- weight: Safety of low molecular weight heparin in pregnancy: a systematic review.
- dose: Heparin Approximately 2/3 of the patients received prophylactic low dose heparin during the course of study.
- drug: Usually, on diagnosis, high doses of the drug Heparin are injected.
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