Can ROTEM Thromboelastometry Predict Postoperative Bleeding After Cardiac Surgery?

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 655-661

  Davidson, Simon J ^a   McGrowder, Donovan ^a   Roughton, Michael ^a   Kelleher, Andrea A ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; postoperative bleeding; ROTEM

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; FIBRINOGEN; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOELASTOMETRY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; BLOOD COAGULATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 52149112716     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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