Can RapidTEG accelerate the search for coagulopathies in the patient with multiple injuries?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1253-1257

  Jeger, Victor ^a   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multiple injuries; Thrombelastography; Tissue factor; Traumatic coagulopathy

Indexed keywords

KAOLIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TIME; DRUG EFFECT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAOLIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOPLASTIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651027901     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31819d3caf     Document Type: Article

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