Hyperfibrinolysis Elicited via Thromboelastography Predicts Mortality in Trauma

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 496-502

  Ives, Crystal ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Branco, Bernardino C ^a   Okoye, Obi ^a   Schochl, Herbert ^b   Talving, Peep ^a   Lam, Lydia ^a   Shulman, Ira ^a   Nelson, Janice ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AUVA Trauma Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

EPL; estimated percent lysis; Injury Severity Score; INR; international normalized ratio; ISS; MA; maximum amplitude; packed red blood cells; partial thromboplastin time; pRBC; PTT; rotation thromboelastometry; ROTEM; SBP; systolic blood pressure; TEG; thromboelastography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; DEATH; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERFIBRINOLYSIS; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SCALE; LYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX INJURY; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84866348741     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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