THE SAFE USE OF EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA AFTER SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION OF
LOW-DOSE HEPARIN IN GENERAL ABDOMINAL SURGERY Page 1 CJS, Vol. 43, No. 4 …

Background and Objectives The practice of providing postoperative epidural analgesia for
patients receiving deep venous thromboprophylaxis with unfractionated heparin is common …

To confirm the safety of continuous epidural anesthesia during extracorporeal circulation
under heparinization, we investigated epidural hematoma formation following the …

The risk of haematoma formation in the spinal canal following spinal or epidural anaesthesia
given in the presence of sc heparin-dihydroergotamine (DHE) for prevention of …

Low molecular weight heparins were first introduced in the United States in May 1993 as an
alternative to currently available anticoagulant therapy. Like standard heparin, these …

Background and Objectives Subcutaneous (SC) unfractionated heparin (UFH) administered
3 times daily (TID) is widely used for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the …

In patients who receive co-administered low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and
continuous epidural analgesia (CEA) after orthopedic surgery, there is concern about an …

The patient was a 66-year-old male with a history of renal cell carcinoma with metastasis to
the L2, L3, and L4 vertebral bodies scheduled for a radical nephrectomy and …

Therapeutic anticoagulation dosages of standard heparin are commonly used during the
perioperative period in vascular surgery and cardiac surgery patients (1). Low-dose heparin …

M ultiple randomized clinical trials have estab-lished the efficacy of standard heparin (SH)
anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis. However, for high-risk …