coumadin question

[geoffrey patty]

Scott,
 
 
 
When you write ptt in lower case...the two tt's make an H"   for Heparin...thats how I tell our newer RN's to remember it.
 
Geoff Patty RN
University Hospitals Cleveland
Case Medical Center 
Cardiac Cath Lab
 


--- On Sun, 1/18/09, pedsrusscott at cs.com <pedsrusscott at cs.com> wrote:

From: pedsrusscott at cs.com <pedsrusscott at cs.com>
Subject: coumadin question
To: flightmed at flightweb.com, Em-Nsg-L at LISTSRV.UCSF.EDU
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 2:54 PM

Greetings - does anyone have an easy way to remember that the PT should be
checked with coumadin, but the PTT should be checked with heparin?
thanx!
Scott DeBoer RN,MSN
UCAN Flight RN
Peds-R-Us Medical Education
www.peds-r-us.com
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