Publications by authors named "Kyle Dvoracek"

A 2019 study by Prucnal and colleagues found that the majority of patients treated with unfractionated heparin for pulmonary embolism did not maintain therapeutic activated partial thromboplastin time levels during the first 48 h of therapy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of an institution's unfractionated heparin dosing protocol to achieve and maintain therapeutic anti-Xa levels within the first 48 h of therapy in patients with venous thromboembolism. : This retrospective study included 205 patients from May 2016 through September 2020.

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Approximately 55,000 patients per year in the United States are exposed to potentially rabid animals and receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) and these patients commonly present to the emergency department (ED) for wound care and PEP. Despite the number of rabies exposures seen in EDs each year, there appears to be a knowledge gap among health care providers with regard to prescribing and administering rabies PEP. The following review aims to bridge that knowledge gap by discussing the importance of obtaining a comprehensive exposure history to determine the category of the encounter, the type of animal, and the location of the bite and of consulting outside expert resources to determine whether the rabies PEP series is indicated.

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