Heparin Potency Concerns

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Fri, 01/23/2026 - 13:00
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Jeffrey Gonzalez
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Heparin Potency Concerns

Hi all,

In the past few weeks we've had a dramatic increase in reports from our interventional cardiology, EP cardiology, and CT surgery teams about our Fresenius Kabi heparin 1000 unit/mL 10 mL vials not providing an appropriate response in ACT.

We did just send off two different lots for potency testing to help alleviate concerns about this, but I was wondering if others have also recently experienced this?

The lot in question for us is: 6036976.

Thanks!

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