Highest INR you have heard of or experienced?

[carolinemc]

Years ago, I was able to get in touch with the CEO of Coagusense, makers of the Coag-Sense meter. He told me that there are some places (hospitals? clinics?) that switch from the CoaguChek meter to the Coag-Sense to validate results if the CoaguChek results are 4.0 or above.

I don't know who, or where, these places that use the Coag-Sense to validate high numbers, but since they changed management a few years ago, my confidence in the company and their test results has dropped so much that I haven't bought any more strips, and haven't tested with a Coag-Sense meter for well over a year. (And without any recent strips, I don't think I WILL, either).

My lab that uses that, when I went to 100, I had to go to the regular lab in the hospital and get a draw from the arm. My reading in the lab was 4.0. The other lab concurred the same, and we dosed accordingly.

 

[Protimenow]

You had an INR of 100? 10,0? Was it the Coag-Sense that gave you that high INR? (IIRC, the Coag-Sense won't give a reading above 8.0, or maybe 9,0)

 

[thomas999]

You had an INR of 100? 10,0? Was it the Coag-Sense that gave you that high INR? (IIRC, the Coag-Sense won't give a reading above 8.0, or maybe 9,0)

It was actually over 100, probably 120. This was measured by the local hospital lab, and in the emergency room at the hospital. I remember talking to a nurse who said that's impossible because it can't go over 100. I don't know why she would think it stops at 100, but the PT value peaked at over 12. I was starting to bleed out from all soft tissue in the body. I often wonder if there was bleeding in the brain, but I am no crazier than I was before, at least that's what I think, haha.