Specialties CCU
Published Jun 30, 2012
You are reading page 2 of INR increasing...without anticoagulation?
SICU_Murse
79 Posts
Warfarin pretty much interacts with EVERYTHING. Two drugs that come to mind are levoquin and amiodarone.
ghillbert, MSN, NP
3,796 Posts
If INR is 13 despite multiple doses of Vitamin K, it's time to give some FFP and get it down. That's a cerebral hemorrhage waiting to happen!
turnforthenurse, MSN, NP
3,364 Posts
Tylenol can also interfere with Coumadin metabolism and in turn affects your liver which can further interfere with metabolism...I had a patient with an INR of 9.9. Took a lot of Tylenol. That patient got some bags of FFP and INR stabilized :)
joyfulmission
3 Posts
It may be due to HIT (Heparin induced thrombocytopenia)...just a thought
ozarkmomma
7 Posts
heparin induced thrombcytopenia... liver failure, sepsis
sharifi9879
59 Posts
regarding to the wide drug interaction between Comadin and many drugs, please consider following items.
Independent risk factors for an increased risk of INR above 6.0 were: