Perioperative assessment of coagulability in neurosurgical patients using thromboelastography

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-11

  Abrahams, John M ^a   Torchia, Maria B ^a   McGarvey, Michael ^a   Putt, Mary ^a   Baranov, Dimitri ^a   Sinson, Grant P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood coagulation; Coagulability; Deep vein thrombosis; Thromboelastography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGE; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEGENERATIVE SPINE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LEG; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINE DISEASE; STRATIFICATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COAGULATION; CORDOTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036661662     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(02)00777-2     Document Type: Article

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