The weight-based heparin dosing protocol used in this ... aPTTs in the same amount of time and at similar final infusion rates ( Table 2). Dosing seemed to be more accurate for the obese group ...

Mean ± S.D. initial heparin infusion rates for the obese and nonobese groups were 14.44 ± 1.29 and 15.04 ± 0.42 units/kg/hr, respectively. Times to targeted aPTT for obese and nonobese patients ...