Can the viscoelastic parameter α-angle distinguish fibrinogen from platelet deficiency and guide fibrinogen supplementation?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 289-301

  Solomon, Cristina ^a,b,c   Schöchl, Herbert ^c,d   Ranucci, Marco ^d   Schlimp, Christoph J ^c,e  

^a CSL BEHRING GMBH   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

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

^d Trauma Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

^e GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; KAOLIN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOELASTOGRAPH; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTICITY; AFIBRINOGENEMIA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METABOLISM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISCOSITY;

AFIBRINOGENEMIA; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84937954597     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000738     Document Type: Review

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