How to Give Heparin to Patients on Bypass

The ACT is not making it high enough to 480 or higher. If your body doesn't have enough antithromin 3 Heparin can't do its job and you won't successfully anticoagulate correct So so FFP has antithrombin 3 in it That is a usually a fairly quick Product to get, typically that is ordered even before patients will come to the operating room. We also Discussed with the the perfusionist and the surgeon what is our hemoglobin so patients Typically when you go on bypass there's a lot of tubes and you're going to hemodalute the patient. They'll prime the pump with blood so we don't dilute them that low