Use and utility of preoperative hemostatic screening and patient history in adult neurosurgical patients: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1097-1105

  Seicean, Andreea ^a,b   Schiltz, Nicholas K ^a,b   Seicean, Sinziana ^a,c   Alan, Nima ^b   Neuhauser, Duncan ^a,b   Weil, Robert J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Health services research; Hemostasis; Neurosurgery; Outcome; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; ODDS RATIO; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLATELET COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860775326     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.1.JNS111760     Document Type: Article

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