Uneventful Removal of an Epidural Catheter Guided by Impedance Aggregometry in a Patient With Recent Coronary Stenting and Treated With Clopidogrel and Acetylsalicylic Acid

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 354-357

  Bergmann, Lars ^a   Kienbaum, Peter ^a   Görlinger, Klaus ^a   Peters, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiplatelet therapy; Epidural catheter removal; Multiplate; Platelet aggregometry; Point of care testing; Regional anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CORONARY STENT; CYSTECTOMY; DEVICE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FUNCTION TEST; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE AGGREGOMETRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; TIME;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ASPIRIN; CATHETERIZATION; CYSTECTOMY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 34548042768     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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