Heparin is an anticoagulant for injection, which prevents the formation of thrombus, being indicated for the treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism and pre-infarct angina.
Its administration should be done by nurse or doctor, by injection into the skin or vein, being for hospital use only.
- Heparin is a drug that inhibits blood clotting and is indicated for the prevention of arteriovenous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
Learn more about other types of blood thinners and the precautions you should take during treatment.
Heparin, although it does not help to remove the new coronavirus from the body, has been used, in some cases, to treat thromboembolic complications that can occur with COVID-19 disease.
This type of complication occurs because the immune response causes an exaggerated activation of macrophages, which in some patients leads to a pathological response of thrombin, leading to the occurrence of thrombotic episodes, such as jauns, pulmonary embolism and other types of disseminated intravascular coagulation. , which can be controlled by the use of heparin. Understand, in more detail, the relationship between COVID-19 and thromboembolic diseases.
Heparin should be administered by a health care professional, either subcutaneously (under the skin) or intravenously (in the vein).
The dosage should be individualized for each person and always adapted to the particular circumstances of each case, taking into account the type of evolution of the pathology, the body weight and age of the patient and the side effects.
Some of the most common side effects that can occur during heparin treatment are bleeding, with blood in the urine, bruising and decreased number of platelets in the blood.
Heparin is contraindicated in people who are hypersensitive to heparin and formula components and should not be used by people with severe thrombopenia, subacute bacterial endocarditis, with suspected intracranial bleeding or uncontrollable active bleeding, hemophilia, retinopathy, in situations where there are no conditions for proper clotting. involving lesions of the vascular system.
In addition, it should also not be used in hemorrhagic diastasis, spinal cord surgery, in situations where abortion is imminent, severe clotting diseases, severe hepatic and renal impairment, in the presence of malignant tumors with high capillary permeability of the digestive system and vascular purple.
This medicine should not be used by pregnant women without medical advice.