Fibtem plus provides an improved thromboelastometry test for measurement of fibrin-based clot quality in cardiac surgery patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1054-1062

  Solomon, Cristina ^a,b   Baryshnikova, Ekaterina ^c   Schlimp, Christoph J ^d   Schöchl, Herbert ^d,e   Asmis, Lars M ^e   Ranucci, Marco ^c  

^a Salzburger Landeskliniken SALK ^*  (Austria)

^b IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRAUMATOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Trauma Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

^e Unilabs   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13; FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE SULFATE; REMIFENTANIL; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; FIBRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FIBRIN CLOT; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOELASTOMETRY; VISCOELASTICITY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELASTICITY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

AGED; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84887059679     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182a1afac     Document Type: Article

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