Rotational thrombelastometry: A step forward to safer patient care?

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Saner, Fuat H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PROCOAGULANT; PROTHROMBIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; NOTE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; ROTATIONAL THROMBELASTOMETRY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOELASTOGRAPH; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VISCOELASTICITY; FEMALE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84924226930     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0706-7     Document Type: Note

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