#99 Bleeding vs. Clotting Risk: Gray Matters Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is Heparin Drip for a Liver Biopsy Needed?
Oncologist: There is no rule there should be no rule that an oncologist can only consult when there's a tissue diagnosis. The best way to balance his clotting risk and need for biopsy was to keep him inpatient on a heparin drip, then briefly interrupt the Heparin drip for the liver biopsy. After this point I was not on service anymore so I checked his chart a week later to see how he was doing and got that alert in the medical record that I was entering the chart of a deceased patient.
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