Heparin contraindications

Contraindications
Heparin sodium should not be used in patients:


 * With severe thrombocytopenia;


 * In whom suitable blood-coagulation tests (the whole-blood clotting time, partial thromboplastin time, etc.) cannot be performed at appropriate intervals (this contraindication refers to full-dose Heparin; there is usually no need to monitor coagulation parameters in patients receiving low-dose Heparin);


 * With an uncontrollable active bleeding state, except when this is due to disseminated intravascular coagulation.