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Coumadin Dosage For Adults. You are on a 25 mg tablet. Maintenance warfarin dose adjustments should be based on current INR results and. Call the clinic if you increase your regular dose of more than 1000 mgday. Adding 5mg to the week for instance 5mg Monday-Friday with 75mg Saturday-Sunday should increase the INR into the mid-2s.
If the patients CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genotypes are not known the initial dose of COUMADIN is usually 2 to 5 mg once daily. Some days you may need to take ½ a tablet. 2-5 mg POIV qDay 2 days OR 10 mg PO 2 days in healthy individuals. Warfarin should usually be started at a dose of 5 mg per dayA 10-mg dose more frequently results in a supratherapeutic international normalized ratio INR. Adding 5mg to the week for instance 5mg Monday-Friday with 75mg Saturday-Sunday should increase the INR into the mid-2s. Determine each patients dosing needs by close monitoring of the INR response and consideration of the indication being treated.
Maintenance warfarin dose adjustments should be based on current INR results and.
However most adult patients are maintained on doses ranging from 2 to 10 mgday. Warfarin Maintenance Dosing Protocol with INR Goal 25-35. Initial warfarin dosing should be tailored based on patient bleed risk potential sensitivity to warfarin indication goal INR range and if potential drug interactions are present. A maximum dosage for warfarin has not been defined. In a large cohort of pediatric patients n 262 infants required an average daily dose of 033 mgkg while adolescents required an average daily dose of 009 mgkg to. Consider a booster dose of 1 ½ -2 times daily maintenance dose.