Purpose. The performance of a weight-based dosing protocol for unfractionated heparin (UFH) infusions using antifactor Xa monitoring was evaluated. Methods. The first 50 patients to receive a UFH ...
Bowden et al. [10] also used a dosing weight in their investigation of a weight-based heparin protocol. The dosing-weight formula (DW = IBW + [0.4(ABW - IBW)]) was used for obese patients (those ...