The Dept of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, CUHK thanks

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Intensive Care Nephrology - beyond BASIC courses: London (June), Singapore (July)
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Asian Intensive Care Conference, Hong Kong, November 21-22nd 2013

Cautions

• DIC
• renal failure (reduce dose)

Contra-indication

• thromboembolic disease

Adverse effects

• thromboembolism
• nausea, dizziness, diarrhoea
• hypotension (rapid IV injection)
• visual disturbance (rare)

Further reading

British National Formulary

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