Neurosurgical applications of viscoelastic hemostatic assays

S Kvint, J Schuster, MA Kumar - Neurosurgical Focus, 2017 - thejns.org
Patients taking antithrombotic agents are very common in neurosurgical practice. The
perioperative management of these patients can be extremely challenging especially as …

Bank blood shortage, transfusion containment and viscoelastic point-of-care coagulation testing in cardiac surgery

M Ranucci - BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In January 2017, many Italian hospitals (including my own institution) were forced to reduce
the number of major surgical operations because of a severe shortage of packed red blood …

Response to: Routine use of viscoelastic blood tests for diagnosis and treatment of coagulopathic bleeding in cardiac surgery: updated systematic review and meta …

S Kozek, H Schoechl, J Gratz - BJA: British Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Editor—With great interest we read the systematic review and meta-analysis on the routine
use of viscoelastic haemostatic assays (VHA) for diagnosis and treatment of coagulopathic …

Optimal patient blood management in cardiac surgery using viscoelastic point-of-care testing: Response to: Routine use of viscoelastic blood tests for diagnosis and …

EA Vlot, S Rigter, PG Noordzij - BJA: British Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Editor—We read with interest the study of Serraino and Murphy1 on routine use of point-of-
care (POC) testing for diagnosis and treatment of coagulopathy in cardiac surgery patients …

Evidence, new methods and current practice of point-of-care coagulation testing in major haemorrhage

MC Reade, J Winearls - Australasian Anaesthesia, 2017 - search.informit.org
Major haemorrhage causes coagulopathy, although the proportion of patients who become
coagulopathic by standard laboratory indices [prothrombin time (PT), activated partial …

[PDF][PDF] Clinical decision versus thromboelastometry based fresh frozen plasma transfusion

MI Meesters, NJ Koning, SA Loer… - … management strategies in …, 2017 - research.vu.nl
The prompt decision to transfuse fresh frozen plasma (FFP) after cardiopulmonary bypass
(CPB) is frequently based on clinical signs of coagulopathy, patient characteristics, duration …