Finding the sweet spot: Titrating unfractionated heparin in children after cardiac surgery to prevent thrombosis and minimize bleeding

Abstract

Is this the ''sweet'' spot? Anti-Xa versus PTT5: poor correlation but different information. Central Message Despite poor correlation, combined use of the PTT and anti-Xa assays may bring us closer to the ''sweet spot'' of UFH therapy in children postsurgery, preventing thrombosis while minimizing bleeding.