National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) (Nursing Care Center / Nursing Care Center)
Anticoagulation Therapy - Prophylactic Treatment
Publish | January 01, 0001
Does NPSG.03.05.01 apply to prophylactic treatment? We often use therapeutic doses of heparin as an infusion for DVT prophylaxis after orthopedic surgery.
NPSG.03.05.01 applies to those situations when anticoagulant is administered therapeutically and not prophylactically regardless of the medication type (warfarin, heparin, low molecular weight heparin, etc.). However, if it is usual practice for patients to be kept on therapeutic ranges of anticoagulant for several days as a prophylactic strategy then NPSG.03.05.01 is applicable.
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