Coagulation monitoring under bleeding conditions: Time to reconsider basic principles for our clinical decisions!

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 517-518

  Fries, D ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; FIBRIN CLOT; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIBRIN POLYMERIZATION; HUMAN; MONITORING;

FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84860282967     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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