Coagulation monitoring of the bleeding traumatized patient

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-241

  Johansson, Pär I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Thromboelastography; Thromboelastometry; Transfusion; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REVIEW; ROTATION THROMBOELASTOMETRY; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84859735736     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32834fab76     Document Type: Review

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