On the value of routine prothrombin time screening in elective neurosurgical procedures

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Dützmann, Stephan ^a   Geßler, Florian ^a   Marquardt, Gerhard ^a   Seifert, Volker ^a   Senft, Christian ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coumadin; Prothrombin time; Screening; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR;

AGED; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

AGED; BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 84871432781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.7.FOCUS12219     Document Type: Article

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