Missing Agratroban

I ended up leaving dialysis at the regular time even though I showed up 45 minutes early per their instructions. Usually, when they disconnect me from the dialysis machine, they inject agratroban into my chest catheter to prevent clogging. However, likely due to the schedule change from Tuesday to Monday, the hospital forgot to send the agratroban. The nurse realized this near then end of my session so she had to call the hospital pharmacy to have them rush an order. I ended sitting in my dialysis chair waiting for the medication to show.

I saw the label on the agratroban syringes and each line (there are two) of the catheter gets 18 mL injected. Drugs.com show $175.82 for 50 mL of agratroban (1 mg/mL concentration) so my 36 mL should cost no more than ~$127. Not super-expensive but likely more than heparin. There are a lot of different prices for heparin on Drugs.com so I’m not sure how to compare.