A 30-Year-Old Patient Is Diagnosed with a DVT

question 35

Multiple Choice

A 30-year-old patient is diagnosed with a DVT.This is his third episode of DVTs.He is currently hospitalized and receiving heparin therapy.The physician orders a thrombotic risk battery of tests.What is the most appropriate action that the laboratory professional should take?

• A)Call the physician and explain that testing will not be accurate during anticoagulant therapy and during the thrombotic episode.
• B)Perform the battery of tests in the thrombosis risk profile, but note that results are not reliable.
• C)Perform a PT and an APTT, and, if prolonged, refuse to do the testing.
• D)Call the physician and explain that this patient is not a candidate for thrombosis risk testing.

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