Just gave Sam’s Hickman Central Line its last daily flush of heparin.  Tomorrow the line will be removed.

a bit about Heparin: it acts as an anticoagulant in this case but that’s not always the case. Pharmaceutical grade heparin is extracted from pigs and cows but it has also been extracted from:
turkeys, whales, dromedary camels, mice, lobsters, fresh water mussels, clams, shrimp, mangrove crabs and sand dollars — a very diverse set of animals. 

“The biological activity of heparin within lobsters, fresh water mussels, clams, shrimp, mangrove crabs and sand dollars is unclear and further supports the idea that the main physiological role of heparin is not anticoagulation. These species do not possess any blood coagulation system similar to that present inturkeys, humans, whales, dromedaries, and mice.  The above list also demonstrates how heparin has been highly evolutionarily conserved, with molecules of a similar structure being produced by a broad range of organisms belonging to many different phyla.“ (Wikipedia)

cool!

Thank you for your service Hickman Central Line.  Glad to not need you anymore.

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