A patient is receiving both heparin and Coumadin. The nurse understands that the:
1. physician has made an error.
2. patient is being weaned from Coumadin.
3. patient will soon be taken off heparin.
4. patient may have a paradoxical effect.
3
If anticoagulant therapy is started with heparin and a coumarin or indanedione derivative, it is recommended that both drugs be given until the PT or INR results indicate an adequate response to the coumarin or indanedione derivative.
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