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Platelets crashing on day 5

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Platelets crashing on day 5

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Day 5 on CP. Platelets 38k and falling, toes mottled, HIT ELISA just flipped positive. Flow and position are fine. The purge is still heparinized D5W — “only a little,” the overnight note says. Cassette heparin counts. Every heparin source has to come out.

Uncorrected shock, suction, or a misplaced inlet progresses to pre-arrest, then a fail.

Goals

  • · Heparin off
  • · Bivalirudin started