After things settled down with the preemie, I spent the wee hours of this morning trying to figure out how to nicely tell the docs (at the morning meeting) that we're out of lovenox, and since they've all insisted on giving heparin prophy to everyone, we're running VERY low on heparin - like we might run out.
(for the non-medical people: lovenox or heparin can be used to prevent deep vein thrombosis, ie. dangerous blood clots, in people who are spending all day laying in bed)
I'm taking most of their patients off of heparin and putting them on aspirin, and recommending the PTs or the family members make sure to move the limbs around.
Yeah, that will go over well before coffee...
~PJ
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