Dosage of heparin for patency of the totally implanted central venous catheter in cancer patients.

CONCLUSION: according to the selected studies, the lowest dose of heparin found in maintaining the patency of the totally implanted central venous catheter in cancer patients was 10 UN/ml with a volume of 5 ml of the heparin solution.
PMID: 32578754 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem - June 26, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Oliveira FJG, Rodrigues AB, Ramos IC, Caetano JÁ Tags: Rev Lat Am Enfermagem Source Type: research