Educating patients about warfarin bridging

Weithman offers insights on how to educate a patient with a history of recurrent pulmonary embolism (PE) for which he is currently taking warfarin and has been scheduled for bilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA), about the prescribed outpatient warfarin bridging with enoxaparin as part of preopera...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Nursing (Jenkintown, Pa.) Vol. 49; no. 7; pp. 18 - 19
Main Authors:	Weithman, Morgan Elizabeth, Sieber, Amy, Brewer, Jessica, Sheridan, Daniel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Copyright Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved 01-07-2019 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
Subjects:	Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee Drug administration Embolisms Enoxaparin - therapeutic use Humans Joint replacement surgery Knee Nurse-Patient Relations Nursing Patient education Patient Education as Topic Preoperative Care Prescription drugs Pulmonary Embolism - drug therapy Warfarin - therapeutic use
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	Weithman offers insights on how to educate a patient with a history of recurrent pulmonary embolism (PE) for which he is currently taking warfarin and has been scheduled for bilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA), about the prescribed outpatient warfarin bridging with enoxaparin as part of preoperative regimen.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	0360-4039 1538-8689
DOI:	10.1097/01.NURSE.0000558103.81656.b2