Comparison of whole blood fibrin-based clot tests in thrombelastography and thromboelastometry

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 721-730

  Solomon, Cristina ^a   Sørensen, Benny ^b,c   Hochleitner, Gerald ^a   Kashuk, Jeffry ^d   Ranucci, Marco ^e   Schöchl, Herbert ^f,g  

^a Salzburger Landeskliniken SALK ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d St Mary's of Michigan and Midwestern Surgical Associates   (United States)

^e IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^f AUVA Trauma Centre   (Austria)

^g LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRAUMATOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FIBRIN; GELATIN; HEPARIN; HETASTARCH; PROTAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DILUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOELASTOMETRY;

ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859097986     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31824724c8     Document Type: Article

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