Initial emergency department coagulation profile does not predict survival in ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 397-401

  Reed, Matthew J ^a   Burfield, Laura C ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blood coagulation; partial thromboplastin time; prothrombin time; ruptured aneurysm

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887405620     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32835d92c5     Document Type: Article

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