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I have researched the patient more and it appears that he has a hx of brain bleeding... so no MD will prescribe anything to thin the blood because of possibility of recurrence. so no luck with coumadin?!?!?!

Thanks to everyone's input. My next day back is tomorrow bright and... oh wait... dark and early!!! Anyway, I will bring all of these up to the nurse on the floor tomorrow and see what happens. THANKS AGAIN!!!

question for your experienced minds!!!! i recently started working in a small dialysis unit and i am still in training. we have a patient that is frail, weak and allergic to heparin. he very rarely finishes a treatment due to clotting the chambers and the inability to rinse back!! did i mention he was allergic to heparin!!! any tricks of the trade that i could use and pass along to my fellow nurses on the floor??? thanks a million!!!!