Bowden et al. [10] also used a dosing weight in their investigation of a weight-based heparin protocol. The dosing-weight formula (DW = IBW + [0.4(ABW - IBW)]) was used for obese patients (those ...

A chart review was performed for all ... Specifically, we examined differences in heparin doses determined with a weight-based protocol that were required to achieve targeted aPTTs in these ...