Heparin Errors in the NICU

According to statistics, more than 62 million deaths were investigated between 1979 and 2006, of which 244,388 died due to misdiagnosis at hospital (Cox, 2010). The following information highlights drug errors in the use of drug heparin in three US plants. The focus of this article will be a change to be made to eliminate the way of misoperation, the reasons they can be prevented, the legal consequences of misoperation, and future potential risks.

While I was in the hospital, I took some form of anticoagulant. Anticoagulant is a drug designed to prevent thrombosis. The most common intravenous anticoagulant I give a lot is heparin. Heparin was discovered in 1916 and is a list of essential medicines of the World Health Organization (WHO). This is one of the safest and effective medicines and should always be available at the medical center. I have to take a relatively high therapeutic dose of heparin for several weeks. The amount of heparin in my blood must be carefully monitored as heparin continues to be added to my blood by drip and excessive heparin may be fatal. If it is too low, blood will not become thin. Too expensive, I will die

First my heparin level in my blood was too high so I reduced heparin and after 6 hours it was too low I added heparin. This process seems to be continuing indefinitely. That is the difference in the procedure when I notice the blood draw. Sometimes nurses stop heparin injection 30 minutes before, sometimes 5 minutes before, sometimes before, sometimes they stop infusing blood. After the nurse stopped driping heparin and washed the IV line, he removed blood from the same line that heparin injected. Thirty minutes later she said she was back and he said he could not get higher levels of heparin so blood must have been contaminated by dripping water.