Sunday, January 24, 2010
On a Facebook Fan Page…
2:14 PM | 
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Finger Stick Machine Education
Ran across this on Facebook today. Poor guy suffered a clot because his machine was off.
Maybe if he’d have known ahead of time, he could have avoided the inevitable wrong reading.
I utilized the machine Coagucheck and by an error of measurement I suffered a very serious clot. The machine gave me an INR of 4 and really was of 1.3. Now I control me puncturing me in vein.
That’s a HUGE difference. HUGE. 3.7 difference. 3.7 is some people’s therapeutic INR and there was that MUCH of a difference with this poor guy’s reading from his damn machine!!
And that clot he suffered from could have been a stroke or a PE and could have killed him.
Is it really worth the risk people?
Source: http://www.facebook.com/APSFA
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Who am I?
- Finger Stick Machine Education
- My goal is to educate APS patients on long term coumadin or warfarin about the possible dangers of using, and relying on Home (finger stick) INR machines to test their INR. Nothing more, nothing less. **I am not affiliated with any APS group, but a member of many. I am just trying to educate people about these machines.**
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I would love to know how many people would have adjusted their dose down or kept their dose the same if their machine read that INR? 3.7 points off is A LOT!
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