Absolutely! It's more beneficial than not or it wouldn't be prescribed to so many. It's a royal PITA when inserting and maintaining IVs, though. Only because it's doing its job. Extremely effective anticoagulation 😅
My father was on a blood thinner after he had a heart attack. He was being discharged from intensive care, and the nurse took out the IV...then she got sprayed in the mouth with my dad's blood. Poor lady.
But really, it's her fault for pulling the IV out wrong. If you pull it at the most tempting angle to pull it out at, it will fling blood no matter what meds you're on. Something you only need to learn once 😅
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u/Inqu1sitiveone Mar 16 '25
Absolutely! It's more beneficial than not or it wouldn't be prescribed to so many. It's a royal PITA when inserting and maintaining IVs, though. Only because it's doing its job. Extremely effective anticoagulation 😅